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I did a TESS search for Stealth with owner Stoller and he does indeed seem to have registered it, but it looks like it was in connection with some sporting goods company he was involved with in 1985. However, searches for several other words on the above list all came up with zip.
It's a shame that people with a history of making groundless legal threats can't be prosecuted like the common vandals they are. I see Stoller's actions as no different from slashing tires or throwing rocks through people's windows.
If I read the patent right, it seems to cover the whole delivery decision tree, including calling the recipient on the phone to get their address. I find it hard to believe that any judge intelligent enough to show up in court fully dressed would accept this as an innovation.
The money is suppoed to go into the Universal Service Fund, which (if you read the article you'd know) is used to help provide services to low income people, non-profits and so on. So it sort of does benefit the online community by including more people in it.
However, I wish that if they want to do that sort of thing they would do it by increasing existing taxes and taking the money out of there, rather than creating a new tax mechanism with all its accompanying overhead, which eats into the money collected. We already have a vast army of people whose careers revolve entirely around taxation rather than productive work.
Since the author didn't mention cost I checked around for the components he mentioned and here's what I came up with, not trying to get the absolute best price on anything:
video capture card $169 case $226 power supply $55 cpu $183 mbo $140 graphics card, couldn't find the 1Gb version, best guess $160 optical drive $60 memory $90 hard drive $90 remote $24
I'll go one step farther and answer Ballmer's question: "Does anyone here really believe search is going to look like it does now in 10 years?," he asked attendees.
Your personal computer is a thumbnail-size device built into a piece of jewelry or implanted in your body, running GoogleOS. You ask it any question, as you would ask a human assistant who knows everything, and you either hear the answer through a voice in your head or are just aware of the information as if you had remembered it yourself.
AJAX may be the acronym du jour, but these techniques have been around for YEARS, ever since IE5. AJAX is just a simplified way of doing it, just like every programmer in the world creates their own little libraries of routines for handling db connections and the like. AJAX doesn't do anything new, it just repackages it for those who never heard of it.
When I first learned about XmlHttpRequest in the IE5 days, I thought it was going to revolutionize the web. All the problems of session state maintenance would disappear and web pages would become little client-server apps. MS had this capability first with the ActiveX control. They could have hyped this capability and taken the lead with it back in 1999. ASP.Net would have been another great opportunity to showcase this feature and create standards. Instead the ASP.Net philosophy seemed to be to make as many trips to the server as possible. For a while MS virtually abandoned the idea of out-of-band requests. So now, years after introducing this feature, somebody at Microsoft finally realizes what they had going and decides to jump on the bandwagon. Good job guys, but a little late.
I find it somewhat painfully ironic that this GREAT homebrew article is an ASP.Net app!
Nonetheless, this is definitely going to be the solution for my huge and poorly backed up mp3 collection, which has been running on borrowed time for several years. After posting this I will be heading over to EBay to start looking for deals on components. Many thanks to the submitter!
Two tidbits not exactly on topic that your phrase brings to mind:
1) Sums up my view of today's recording industry.
2) When Los Angeles hosted the Olympics, one thing the city did to spiff up was to get tuxedo rental companies to donate old tuxes, which were handed out to street people.
I really would like to think this is something amazing and cool, but I can't help comparing it to making electronic components into jewelry, which was also kind of cool for about a minute and a half.
What are patents really for? It's always an interesting question. The idea that patents were meant to protect innovators is an appealing one that goes well with the view of the Constitution as a We-the-People document, written by altruistic freedom fighters. But the writers of the Constitution were, for the most part, colonial aristocrats who owned large farms, businesses, and in many cases slaves. These were people who initially wanted to make George Washington a king. It seems to me that they would naturally believe the best way to encourage innovation is indirectly, by making it lucrative for investors who sponsor it. I grit my teeth typing this, but perhaps the idea of building intellectual property fiefdoms wouldn't be all that distasteful to the Founding Fathers. That certainly seems to be how the present-day Supreme Court sees it anyway.
Very well worded bit in the article:...the sense that unauthorized downloading is 'not fair on the artists,' suggesting that the industry's messages... are being communicated effectively.
Yes, thanks to the industry's "messages" most people do have a sense that illegal downloads hurt musicians. But in fact it's the opposite. Most musicians don't make any money whatsoever from CD sales, because under a standard recording contract all the expenses of producing and distributing the little plastic discs get deducted from the musician's royalties, usually leaving nothing.
Musicians make a living playing live performances, just like they did for centuries before recording technology existed. What they get out of CD sales is exposure, which translates to bigger and better paying gigs. They get that exposure whether you pay for the copy or not. The important thing for the musician is that as many people as possible listen to the music, because a certain number of them will eventually buy concert tickets. Controlling people's ability to distribute copies benefits only the record companies, not the musicians.
"In 37 years as a recording artist, I've created 25+ albums for major labels, and I've never once received a royalty check that didn't show I owed them money. So I make the bulk of my living from live touring, playing for 80-1500 people a night, doing my own show... When someone writes and tells me they came to my show because they'd downloaded a song and gotten curious, I am thrilled! Who gets hurt by free downloads? Save a handful of super-successes like Celine Dion, none of us. We only get helped."
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I agree 100%. Suppose some company creates a website that publishes a fee schedule for permits, licenses and other government services. Should they argue that the government itself should stop publishing that same information, because it competes with a private business? Ridiculous.
The atom bombs killed no more people than other massive bombings of major cities, they just did it using fewer bombs, men and planes. Arguing that they shouldn't have been used is like arguing that you shouldn't fight as hard when you're winning. Condemning the decisions made by people during a war is very easy to do from a nice safe distance, just as being a critic is a lot easier than being an actor.
p.s. Marx likened religion to opium because religion encourages people to accept doctrine and authority, lulling them into a docile state. No matter how escapist, SF does exactly the opposite. It stimulates thought and openness to new ideas, and to questioning the currently accepted vision of reality. Many scientists will tell you that Star Trek and other SF inspired them to become real scientists. Sci-fi has never been and will never be the opiate of the geek masses.
The "mundane" or "real world" genre Ryman longs for sounds like what we used to call "hard" science fiction. There's no need to invent another term for it. As I recall, it starting losing ground to fantasy around the time the U.S. space program wound down in the early 70s when Lord of the Rings was becoming popular with college students, followed a few years later by Dungeons and Dragons. Writers responded to the changes in readers' tastes by injecting more and more sorcery and fantasy into SF, and the debate over where the boundary lies was endlessly debated. In the early eighties somebody, I think it was Algis Budrys in Asimov's magazine, wrote a similar essay expressing dismay that SF had not enough science and too many Dreamsnakes.
But you can't change what people buy by complaining about it. Instead of merely discussing the lack of hard science fiction and making up new names for it, the best thing McDonald and Ryman could do would be to write some hard SF and try to sell it. If they come up with something that catches on, others will imitate their success. But that's easier said than done, which is why most people with such opinions take the much simpler path of writing little essays on the web and being called pundits.
When my daughter was little I purposely didn't get her involved with computers that much; didn't talk about programming or explain what I was spending so much time doing. It was something like not wanting to push her into it, or I don't know what. Now at 14 she has her own computer but is not the least bit interested in it technically. All she does is spend 2-4 hrs/day IMing her friends. She's very bright and analytical, and I really regret not trying to involve her with the geek side of computers when she was at the age when anything I did or said fascinated her.
Are not most of his constituents pro-life, actually? I thought that means that all life (all children) should be entitled to the protection of their health/life on their own right
"Pro-life" is just a PR term for "anti-abortion." It doesn't mean these people are "pro" anything. Most of the people I know who are rabidly against abortion are just as rabidly against doing anything for the single mother. They want her to suffer for her own sins. If you bring up the subject of the child being an innocent victim of the resulting poverty or whatever, they will immediately fall back to the line that the government can't run everybody's life, people have to take responsibility for themselves, maybe you'd rather live in Russia, etc, etc. I've concluded that it's hopeless to argue. The only strategy worth pursuing is to win.
So you're glad to see a company do a knee-jerk lawsuit reaction, shutting down an entire service rather than go through and remove offensive items. Makes sense to me.
Well said. This one very smart programmer I knew named Vince had one of those tiny bullet-shaped heads, like you'd wonder how a human brain could fit inside it. And for what it's worth, I also knew a big guy named Johnson who had a really small nose.
Digital paper has been featured on Slashdot before but I can't find the reference. Fujitsu's prototype from this 2004 article looks a lot more impressive than a thin digital clock.
I've tried installing Mandrake 8, 9 and 10, SUSE and Debian on my old P350, and the only install that didn't croak was Mandrake 8, and with that one I never could get the sound to work. I assume it's my hardware, but then of course that box ran Win98 just fine. I would like to learn Linux and get away from MS, and I have this nice old machine to play on. I keep hearing how easy it is, so wtf?
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I did a TESS search for Stealth with owner Stoller and he does indeed seem to have registered it, but it looks like it was in connection with some sporting goods company he was involved with in 1985. However, searches for several other words on the above list all came up with zip.
It's a shame that people with a history of making groundless legal threats can't be prosecuted like the common vandals they are. I see Stoller's actions as no different from slashing tires or throwing rocks through people's windows.
If I read the patent right, it seems to cover the whole delivery decision tree, including calling the recipient on the phone to get their address. I find it hard to believe that any judge intelligent enough to show up in court fully dressed would accept this as an innovation.
The money is suppoed to go into the Universal Service Fund, which (if you read the article you'd know) is used to help provide services to low income people, non-profits and so on. So it sort of does benefit the online community by including more people in it.
However, I wish that if they want to do that sort of thing they would do it by increasing existing taxes and taking the money out of there, rather than creating a new tax mechanism with all its accompanying overhead, which eats into the money collected. We already have a vast army of people whose careers revolve entirely around taxation rather than productive work.
a severed hand will be every bit as valid as one made of wood
But you see, wood floats. So therefore, if your hand is made out of wood, then you must be... A Wiiiiiiitch!
Since the author didn't mention cost I checked around for the components he mentioned and here's what I came up with, not trying to get the absolute best price on anything:
video capture card $169
case $226
power supply $55
cpu $183
mbo $140
graphics card, couldn't find the 1Gb version, best guess $160
optical drive $60
memory $90
hard drive $90
remote $24
grand total $1197
I'll go one step farther and answer Ballmer's question:
"Does anyone here really believe search is going to look like it does now in 10 years?," he asked attendees.
Your personal computer is a thumbnail-size device built into a piece of jewelry or implanted in your body, running GoogleOS. You ask it any question, as you would ask a human assistant who knows everything, and you either hear the answer through a voice in your head or are just aware of the information as if you had remembered it yourself.
AJAX may be the acronym du jour, but these techniques have been around for YEARS, ever since IE5. AJAX is just a simplified way of doing it, just like every programmer in the world creates their own little libraries of routines for handling db connections and the like. AJAX doesn't do anything new, it just repackages it for those who never heard of it.
When I first learned about XmlHttpRequest in the IE5 days, I thought it was going to revolutionize the web. All the problems of session state maintenance would disappear and web pages would become little client-server apps. MS had this capability first with the ActiveX control. They could have hyped this capability and taken the lead with it back in 1999. ASP.Net would have been another great opportunity to showcase this feature and create standards. Instead the ASP.Net philosophy seemed to be to make as many trips to the server as possible. For a while MS virtually abandoned the idea of out-of-band requests. So now, years after introducing this feature, somebody at Microsoft finally realizes what they had going and decides to jump on the bandwagon. Good job guys, but a little late.
I find it somewhat painfully ironic that this GREAT homebrew article is an ASP.Net app!
Nonetheless, this is definitely going to be the solution for my huge and poorly backed up mp3 collection, which has been running on borrowed time for several years. After posting this I will be heading over to EBay to start looking for deals on components. Many thanks to the submitter!
Two tidbits not exactly on topic that your phrase brings to mind:
1) Sums up my view of today's recording industry.
2) When Los Angeles hosted the Olympics, one thing the city did to spiff up was to get tuxedo rental companies to donate old tuxes, which were handed out to street people.
I really would like to think this is something amazing and cool, but I can't help comparing it to making electronic components into jewelry, which was also kind of cool for about a minute and a half.
What are patents really for? It's always an interesting question. The idea that patents were meant to protect innovators is an appealing one that goes well with the view of the Constitution as a We-the-People document, written by altruistic freedom fighters. But the writers of the Constitution were, for the most part, colonial aristocrats who owned large farms, businesses, and in many cases slaves. These were people who initially wanted to make George Washington a king. It seems to me that they would naturally believe the best way to encourage innovation is indirectly, by making it lucrative for investors who sponsor it. I grit my teeth typing this, but perhaps the idea of building intellectual property fiefdoms wouldn't be all that distasteful to the Founding Fathers. That certainly seems to be how the present-day Supreme Court sees it anyway.
Bennie Smith is entirely correct -- if ad blocking becomes standard in popular browsers, that will be the end of free content on the web.
In other words, the web as it existed in 1995 did not actually exist. Brilliant.
Yes, thanks to the industry's "messages" most people do have a sense that illegal downloads hurt musicians. But in fact it's the opposite. Most musicians don't make any money whatsoever from CD sales, because under a standard recording contract all the expenses of producing and distributing the little plastic discs get deducted from the musician's royalties, usually leaving nothing.
Musicians make a living playing live performances, just like they did for centuries before recording technology existed. What they get out of CD sales is exposure, which translates to bigger and better paying gigs. They get that exposure whether you pay for the copy or not. The important thing for the musician is that as many people as possible listen to the music, because a certain number of them will eventually buy concert tickets. Controlling people's ability to distribute copies benefits only the record companies, not the musicians.
Long-time musician Janis Ian wrote a couple very good articles explaining in detail how this works . Here's an excerpt:
I agree 100%. Suppose some company creates a website that publishes a fee schedule for permits, licenses and other government services. Should they argue that the government itself should stop publishing that same information, because it competes with a private business? Ridiculous.
The atom bombs killed no more people than other massive bombings of major cities, they just did it using fewer bombs, men and planes. Arguing that they shouldn't have been used is like arguing that you shouldn't fight as hard when you're winning. Condemning the decisions made by people during a war is very easy to do from a nice safe distance, just as being a critic is a lot easier than being an actor.
p.s. Marx likened religion to opium because religion encourages people to accept doctrine and authority, lulling them into a docile state. No matter how escapist, SF does exactly the opposite. It stimulates thought and openness to new ideas, and to questioning the currently accepted vision of reality. Many scientists will tell you that Star Trek and other SF inspired them to become real scientists. Sci-fi has never been and will never be the opiate of the geek masses.
The "mundane" or "real world" genre Ryman longs for sounds like what we used to call "hard" science fiction. There's no need to invent another term for it. As I recall, it starting losing ground to fantasy around the time the U.S. space program wound down in the early 70s when Lord of the Rings was becoming popular with college students, followed a few years later by Dungeons and Dragons. Writers responded to the changes in readers' tastes by injecting more and more sorcery and fantasy into SF, and the debate over where the boundary lies was endlessly debated. In the early eighties somebody, I think it was Algis Budrys in Asimov's magazine, wrote a similar essay expressing dismay that SF had not enough science and too many Dreamsnakes.
But you can't change what people buy by complaining about it. Instead of merely discussing the lack of hard science fiction and making up new names for it, the best thing McDonald and Ryman could do would be to write some hard SF and try to sell it. If they come up with something that catches on, others will imitate their success. But that's easier said than done, which is why most people with such opinions take the much simpler path of writing little essays on the web and being called pundits.
When my daughter was little I purposely didn't get her involved with computers that much; didn't talk about programming or explain what I was spending so much time doing. It was something like not wanting to push her into it, or I don't know what. Now at 14 she has her own computer but is not the least bit interested in it technically. All she does is spend 2-4 hrs/day IMing her friends. She's very bright and analytical, and I really regret not trying to involve her with the geek side of computers when she was at the age when anything I did or said fascinated her.
A very vague idea went in, and some people went to work on their computers.
So? Sounds like most of the projects I've worked on. If Episode 2 involves contractors getting blamed and fired, we'll be right on track!
Are not most of his constituents pro-life, actually? I thought that means that all life (all children) should be entitled to the protection of their health/life on their own right
"Pro-life" is just a PR term for "anti-abortion." It doesn't mean these people are "pro" anything. Most of the people I know who are rabidly against abortion are just as rabidly against doing anything for the single mother. They want her to suffer for her own sins. If you bring up the subject of the child being an innocent victim of the resulting poverty or whatever, they will immediately fall back to the line that the government can't run everybody's life, people have to take responsibility for themselves, maybe you'd rather live in Russia, etc, etc. I've concluded that it's hopeless to argue. The only strategy worth pursuing is to win.
So you're glad to see a company do a knee-jerk lawsuit reaction, shutting down an entire service rather than go through and remove offensive items. Makes sense to me.
Well said. This one very smart programmer I knew named Vince had one of those tiny bullet-shaped heads, like you'd wonder how a human brain could fit inside it. And for what it's worth, I also knew a big guy named Johnson who had a really small nose.
Digital paper has been featured on Slashdot before but I can't find the reference. Fujitsu's prototype from this 2004 article looks a lot more impressive than a thin digital clock.
Maybe it's actually "wafer-thin" as in mints.
I've tried installing Mandrake 8, 9 and 10, SUSE and Debian on my old P350, and the only install that didn't croak was Mandrake 8, and with that one I never could get the sound to work. I assume it's my hardware, but then of course that box ran Win98 just fine. I would like to learn Linux and get away from MS, and I have this nice old machine to play on. I keep hearing how easy it is, so wtf?