Since the Pentgon agents would be attached to the military, would they not be prohibited from operating within the confines of the United States territory without imminent invasion or a declared war?
My G3 Powerbook uses a heat pipe too. It is pretty common in laptops. I have not taken my TiBOOK apart (yet:) but I'll bet there is one in it as well.
So I'm still voting for a real liquid cooling system that isn't a heat pipe. It could be convection based (there goes the Marathon rack aftermarket!) where the fan speeds up and that cools the liquid more, which increases the differential temerature wich increses the flow rate... >br>But I'll vote for a pump somewhere. Although, a heatpipe could be more appropriate in some cases. We'll all know when someone shreads one for inside pics when they ship.
Having actually built neon light logic circuits (to make a binary calculator, I never made the Phase two with Nixies and BCD logic), I can say that the G5 definitively runs faster.... Oh you meant adding neon light to the G5.... Nevermind...
The problem is there are occasional patches of gravel even on the straights. As a '78 Firebird driver I can tell you they can really spoil an otherwise nice ride. Just like the gravel MS OSes have to contend with these days.
Mice have processors in them. The output stream is different per some unit time when I double click as opposed to when I click. If there exists any mouse that internally detects double clicks and can have in any way be said to have a different application run when double clicked than when clicked (or click and hold, etc.) then it violates this patents tenants and could represent prior art.
I give the humble near universal remote control as my choice of limited computing device that when clicked emits one short stream or code, and when a button is held down emits a similar stream but with repeat codes, so thus a different stream is emitted.
Now is that a different application. Depends on how you consider the structure of the code in the remote. Is the basic monitoring loop the "OS" and the routines invoked the applications? If so, then prior art. I am sure lots of folks can come up with simiar devices. Oddly the reference the Palm in their patent and I know that there was a Palm application that specifically switched to a different application on multiple clicks of one of the application buttons. So it is definately prior art of the kind they are looking for. Wish I could remember the name of the applet that did this. (This is not the one that divided the buttons into quadrants and launched your choice of four apps, but was time based on number of clicks in the selectable interval).
First off this was an IBMer not an Apple zealot. And of course while you were a bit rough around the edges, 64 bit distributions for Alphas (DEC/Digital) existed, and currently Suse 9.1 is available in release form and supports 64 bit.
Consider that Apple shipped USB before Intel platforms did, invented Firewire (IEEE1394), started shipping CD-ROM drives early on. Standardized on SCSI (finally dropped it when IDE sort of caught up to save costs), SCSI is now retired from most desktop applications and reserved for servers so Apple put server class mass storage as the default on their PCs, and put 1000BT ethernet interfaces on their computers first (in general, not as a add-on) while PCI cards cost multiple hundreds of dollars for the same funtionality. I could go on, but that would only feed the flames.
Warning, Very rough pseudo science coming. Does not take into account all possible solutions or factors (like bands of existing wind patterns, etc).
If you are at 1/4 the distance lets call the amount of debris you receive 1 unit of debris. Since the debris is covering a surface the hypothesis is that for each vector you'd get approximately square root of 2 over two. Obviously we could integrate over an infinite number of paths. This would potentially mean more material was at the south pole than was ejected from the North pole. An obvious fallacy.
Don't forget that a large portion of the material will leave the area only to fall back into the area (the blast is a volume problem so up counts), and that at some point if the material has sufficient energy to travel far enough it will have to have left the atmosphere and will be neutralized falling back into it (and generating some heat where it falls back in). I don't have the figures handy but I am pretty sure you can't ballistically travel (as the ejecta would from the blast site) travel 1/2 way around the world as the energy would provide escape velocity. And of course the oppossing force due to drag is related to the square of the velocity, but the ballistic objects are still subject to gravity (well, or Bullwinkle's mine was hit) so the blast volume has only a narrow band that will be appropriately vectored to fall to earth at any given blast radius. (think water fountains with multiple streams from the same rough origin that have different 'hit' locations). Once you are airborne particulates they are small enough that the new wind patterns would take over distribution. And of course the earth is revolving so non-polar blasts (though polar blasts would suffer somewhat as well) would have distribution skewed westward due to the rotation of the earth.
Without too much effort it becomes a complex problem in differential calc. that I don't want to begin working on.
Actually a competeing hypothesis that matches/fits the observations that elevated the prior hypothesis to being a theory result in the theory reverting to a hypothesis. So that is in a sense disproving the validity of the theory, at least to the point of being a theory. Or you could take the position that it is possible to entertain two competeing theories both which fit the current observations and attempt to devise experimental evidence to distinguish one and disprove the other. That leaves two theories covering the same experimental data, which is OK by me, but some others might disagree. Proof of theories is sort of double-speak for the most part in physics, but in other arenas (say criminal investigations) additional facts can provide substance that elevates a theory to fact, "proving" the theory.
If ants train aphids, people call that part of natural selection. If people train dogs, then that is often deemed artificial for some reason. People are part of nature. Our will can exert a natural influence the same as an ant can instictively influence other species development. The symbiosis of people and other animals in our environment with the primary gain in humans direction is no more artificial than ants herding and using aphids. IMNSHO. We choose to make a distinction to further separate us from other animals, and it is that distinction which is artificial.
Maybe the Justice League or "Shadow" should re-aim their microwave power satellite. How else do you think they support those vast wall sized computers and displays that use so much power they send 10 foot sparks of molton metal when they short out. Why they have their own power generation. (Keeps down the cost of vigillance) Obviously the orbit of one of them is compromised. Look for nearby dairy farms with too many silos or cliff sides that planes can fly through safely.
It is nearly the same as the NEO-25 (the patent description not the iPod). They dropped support for the NEO-25 before Apple filed the utility patent or the provisional it is based on. The NEO-25 represents significant prior art to this patent. Apple could have chosen better ways to distinguish the patent to eliminate the conflict, but didn't do their homework. As you can see from this the last update they did for the firmware was in April of 2000.
I had one of the original NEO-25 (3/4 the size of a brick) players and it meets most of the apple claimed functionality. And it was old enough they dropped new support for it before this Apple patent was filed. In this case it looks like Apple did not do their homework.
The NEO-25 supported hierarchical lists (drill down throgh folders of songs, playlists, etc.) And while it did not simultaneoulsy let you drill down by artist, genre, etc. you could certainly arrange things in any of those orders (I had songs, playlists, "xfer" and "misc" as my top level folders). And if you were wearing cargo pants it was pocket-sized. And it fit in my jacket pockets in any case. SSI America was the US importer I bought mine through but there was at least one other branding for the same player. And since it used FAT-32 (or could use FAT-32) you could actually create alias directories and support multiple organization arrangements simultaneously. Which reminds me, I still have to see if the iPod supports aliases/shortcuts/soft links so I can cut down on the number of copies of some songs that appear on multiple albums (where it is the same track, not a remix,live,etc different version).
We can have broadband in every home now w/o stringing more wires. We would have to launch more satellites. Do the same for satellite connnected Internet service through the FCC, as the FCC did for satellite based television. Allow for up to a 1 meter dish (actually make it 1.5 meters since this is an uplink as well) in the 48 "lower states" and give AK and HI up to 6 feet, preempting any restrictive covenents, local ordances, homeowners agreements, etc. in the name of fostering competition. Then lower the barrier to entry for getting a licensed satellite in orbit for the purpose of delivering Internet service to foster competition on that side. So lower taxes on Internet distribution companies, etc. to allow builduout of the infrastructure to keep the rates on par with cable modem delivered Internet. And allow up to 2 meters for combined two-way satellite and DBS dishes if it is a single combined dish installation (that lets one install the more compact higher gain double reflector "orange peel" elliptical dishes.
The short side is, I'd rather see tax breaks for companies that deliver phone and network services to the rural areas on par with the suburban and urban prices rather than have my bills go up (or have me raise my ISP customers bills) to pay for the rural service areas.
Just like I feel for individual taxes, we ought have a uniform flat rate for corporate taxes with a single small/new business deduction (no taxes for the first $50,000 earned, flat rate above that would be nice but you'd have to work out the level of the deduction to encourage and support new and small businesses). Then give limited targeted tax breaks for the areas you want to encourage. Capitalism will then take over and do the heavy lifting.
If it did not cost anything to get the license for a satellite for dedicated Internet two-way service and the launch was done at cost (or subsidized if you were flexible about the launch timing) if all the technical and saftey details were met, etc. We'd have multiple folks offering cheap internet service from space at that point.
Free to the community to use. Launch a constellation of satellites (similar to the GPS ones) that all communicat with each other and communicate with ground stations that use GPS-like control to find the satellites and track them. When traffic drops on the connection to a low level, change the connection point. Put a radome 1.5 meters in diameter on your roof that covers the antenna and if in an area with snow or ice, steal exhaust air from the house and blow it through the radome before doing further heat recovery or flusing it to the outside world. Equipment could be subsidized through the length of the contract for service (just like free cell phones) to reduce the initial sticker shock.
Or, subsidze research to limit or elliminate the nasty side affects of interference from powerline distribution of Internet service. For example they would be greatly reduced if during routine powerline maintenance they replaced the ground wire of the high tension line with "fog wire" (fiberoptic core with a copper / steel reinforced wrap/cover). One could allow for limited powerline distribution for 5-10 years to be gradually replaced by "fog wire" style distribution (require all new or repaired rural power grid systems to use fogwire?).
There aren't any fair witnesses. The guys own site is obviously biased. The papers are being told the story they report, presumably by the sheriffs department; in any case they don't have the web developers side of the story. Personally I think it is plausible to tell someone, "sure I'll do this thing, and we can work out the rates later" particularly when said person is in the process of an election and may not yet have the power to pay you. Having written off more than one client debt as uncollectable I am biased too. From a pure business point of view, he paid all the expenses for the website and should be free to turn it off. Asking for money to turn it back on is not unreasonable. Clearly to me at least this is a civil matter. I hardly see it to be extortion to ask for money to continue providing a service that was never fully negotiated (and apparently difficult to negotiate). It seems like he may have a case for malicious prosecution and several civil rights violations. No matter how you look at it the department in question should not have been the one to seize anything related to the case. Big conflict of interest there. All of the evidence that might have been there is IMHO very tainted at this point. I expect this guy should go free and maybe he'll get more after his lawsuits settle than he originally billed. The law enforcement went way over the top in what should have been a civil matter. Note that in order for the web designer to take the department to court to collect his debt he most likely had to bill for his services. And, there may have been pressure to lock the guy up as intimidation since most likely contracting for services (even if you don't set the rate) before you take office is probably illegal. A good bru ha ha, ha ha... in any case.
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Since the Pentgon agents would be attached to the military, would they not be prohibited from operating within the confines of the United States territory without imminent invasion or a declared war?
My G3 Powerbook uses a heat pipe too. It is pretty common in laptops. I have not taken my TiBOOK apart (yet:) but I'll bet there is one in it as well.
So I'm still voting for a real liquid cooling system that isn't a heat pipe. It could be convection based (there goes the Marathon rack aftermarket!) where the fan speeds up and that cools the liquid more, which increases the differential temerature wich increses the flow rate...
>br>But I'll vote for a pump somewhere. Although, a heatpipe could be more appropriate in some cases. We'll all know when someone shreads one for inside pics when they ship.
Having actually built neon light logic circuits (to make a binary calculator, I never made the Phase two with Nixies and BCD logic), I can say that the G5 definitively runs faster. ... Oh you meant adding neon light to the G5. ... Nevermind ...
The problem is there are occasional patches of gravel even on the straights. As a '78 Firebird driver I can tell you they can really spoil an otherwise nice ride. Just like the gravel MS OSes have to contend with these days.
Mice have processors in them. The output stream is different per some unit time when I double click as opposed to when I click. If there exists any mouse that internally detects double clicks and can have in any way be said to have a different application run when double clicked than when clicked (or click and hold, etc.) then it violates this patents tenants and could represent prior art.
I give the humble near universal remote control as my choice of limited computing device that when clicked emits one short stream or code, and when a button is held down emits a similar stream but with repeat codes, so thus a different stream is emitted.
Now is that a different application. Depends on how you consider the structure of the code in the remote. Is the basic monitoring loop the "OS" and the routines invoked the applications? If so, then prior art. I am sure lots of folks can come up with simiar devices. Oddly the reference the Palm in their patent and I know that there was a Palm application that specifically switched to a different application on multiple clicks of one of the application buttons. So it is definately prior art of the kind they are looking for. Wish I could remember the name of the applet that did this. (This is not the one that divided the buttons into quadrants and launched your choice of four apps, but was time based on number of clicks in the selectable interval).
First off this was an IBMer not an Apple zealot. And of course while you were a bit rough around the edges, 64 bit distributions for Alphas (DEC/Digital) existed, and currently Suse 9.1 is available in release form and supports 64 bit.
Consider that Apple shipped USB before Intel platforms did, invented Firewire (IEEE1394), started shipping CD-ROM drives early on. Standardized on SCSI (finally dropped it when IDE sort of caught up to save costs), SCSI is now retired from most desktop applications and reserved for servers so Apple put server class mass storage as the default on their PCs, and put 1000BT ethernet interfaces on their computers first (in general, not as a add-on) while PCI cards cost multiple hundreds of dollars for the same funtionality. I could go on, but that would only feed the flames.
The keyboards are USB these days. Use your favorite one...
Dinosaurs were on the "B" Ark ...
Warning, Very rough pseudo science coming. Does not take into account all possible solutions or factors (like bands of existing wind patterns, etc).
If you are at 1/4 the distance lets call the amount of debris you receive 1 unit of debris. Since the debris is covering a surface the hypothesis is that for each vector you'd get approximately square root of 2 over two. Obviously we could integrate over an infinite number of paths. This would potentially mean more material was at the south pole than was ejected from the North pole. An obvious fallacy.
Don't forget that a large portion of the material will leave the area only to fall back into the area (the blast is a volume problem so up counts), and that at some point if the material has sufficient energy to travel far enough it will have to have left the atmosphere and will be neutralized falling back into it (and generating some heat where it falls back in). I don't have the figures handy but I am pretty sure you can't ballistically travel (as the ejecta would from the blast site) travel 1/2 way around the world as the energy would provide escape velocity. And of course the oppossing force due to drag is related to the square of the velocity, but the ballistic objects are still subject to gravity (well, or Bullwinkle's mine was hit) so the blast volume has only a narrow band that will be appropriately vectored to fall to earth at any given blast radius. (think water fountains with multiple streams from the same rough origin that have different 'hit' locations). Once you are airborne particulates they are small enough that the new wind patterns would take over distribution. And of course the earth is revolving so non-polar blasts (though polar blasts would suffer somewhat as well) would have distribution skewed westward due to the rotation of the earth.
Without too much effort it becomes a complex problem in differential calc. that I don't want to begin working on.
Actually a competeing hypothesis that matches/fits the observations that elevated the prior hypothesis to being a theory result in the theory reverting to a hypothesis. So that is in a sense disproving the validity of the theory, at least to the point of being a theory. Or you could take the position that it is possible to entertain two competeing theories both which fit the current observations and attempt to devise experimental evidence to distinguish one and disprove the other. That leaves two theories covering the same experimental data, which is OK by me, but some others might disagree. Proof of theories is sort of double-speak for the most part in physics, but in other arenas (say criminal investigations) additional facts can provide substance that elevates a theory to fact, "proving" the theory.
My favorite proof is pudding however.
If ants train aphids, people call that part of natural selection. If people train dogs, then that is often deemed artificial for some reason. People are part of nature. Our will can exert a natural influence the same as an ant can instictively influence other species development. The symbiosis of people and other animals in our environment with the primary gain in humans direction is no more artificial than ants herding and using aphids. IMNSHO. We choose to make a distinction to further separate us from other animals, and it is that distinction which is artificial.
Volunteer to have your appropriately trained staff contracted to SBC for the duration. And charge them a premium.
Take notes in pen while traveling then download them to the computer when you return. Tjp
But by raising costs they lower the barrier for competitive entry. So all in all it reduces their monopoly.
Maybe the Justice League or "Shadow" should re-aim their microwave power satellite. How else do you think they support those vast wall sized computers and displays that use so much power they send 10 foot sparks of molton metal when they short out. Why they have their own power generation. (Keeps down the cost of vigillance) Obviously the orbit of one of them is compromised. Look for nearby dairy farms with too many silos or cliff sides that planes can fly through safely.
It already was. Last year on 1-Apr-2003. You didn't notice?
Flash Fried.
It is nearly the same as the NEO-25 (the patent description not the iPod). They dropped support for the NEO-25 before Apple filed the utility patent or the provisional it is based on. The NEO-25 represents significant prior art to this patent. Apple could have chosen better ways to distinguish the patent to eliminate the conflict, but didn't do their homework. As you can see from this the last update they did for the firmware was in April of 2000.
I had one of the original NEO-25 (3/4 the size of a brick) players and it meets most of the apple claimed functionality. And it was old enough they dropped new support for it before this Apple patent was filed. In this case it looks like Apple did not do their homework.
The NEO-25 supported hierarchical lists (drill down throgh folders of songs, playlists, etc.) And while it did not simultaneoulsy let you drill down by artist, genre, etc. you could certainly arrange things in any of those orders (I had songs, playlists, "xfer" and "misc" as my top level folders). And if you were wearing cargo pants it was pocket-sized. And it fit in my jacket pockets in any case. SSI America was the US importer I bought mine through but there was at least one other branding for the same player. And since it used FAT-32 (or could use FAT-32) you could actually create alias directories and support multiple organization arrangements simultaneously. Which reminds me, I still have to see if the iPod supports aliases/shortcuts/soft links so I can cut down on the number of copies of some songs that appear on multiple albums (where it is the same track, not a remix,live,etc different version).
We can have broadband in every home now w/o stringing more wires. We would have to launch more satellites. Do the same for satellite connnected Internet service through the FCC, as the FCC did for satellite based television. Allow for up to a 1 meter dish (actually make it 1.5 meters since this is an uplink as well) in the 48 "lower states" and give AK and HI up to 6 feet, preempting any restrictive covenents, local ordances, homeowners agreements, etc. in the name of fostering competition. Then lower the barrier to entry for getting a licensed satellite in orbit for the purpose of delivering Internet service to foster competition on that side. So lower taxes on Internet distribution companies, etc. to allow builduout of the infrastructure to keep the rates on par with cable modem delivered Internet. And allow up to 2 meters for combined two-way satellite and DBS dishes if it is a single combined dish installation (that lets one install the more compact higher gain double reflector "orange peel" elliptical dishes.
The short side is, I'd rather see tax breaks for companies that deliver phone and network services to the rural areas on par with the suburban and urban prices rather than have my bills go up (or have me raise my ISP customers bills) to pay for the rural service areas.
Just like I feel for individual taxes, we ought have a uniform flat rate for corporate taxes with a single small/new business deduction (no taxes for the first $50,000 earned, flat rate above that would be nice but you'd have to work out the level of the deduction to encourage and support new and small businesses). Then give limited targeted tax breaks for the areas you want to encourage. Capitalism will then take over and do the heavy lifting.
If it did not cost anything to get the license for a satellite for dedicated Internet two-way service and the launch was done at cost (or subsidized if you were flexible about the launch timing) if all the technical and saftey details were met, etc. We'd have multiple folks offering cheap internet service from space at that point.
Free to the community to use. Launch a constellation of satellites (similar to the GPS ones) that all communicat with each other and communicate with ground stations that use GPS-like control to find the satellites and track them. When traffic drops on the connection to a low level, change the connection point. Put a radome 1.5 meters in diameter on your roof that covers the antenna and if in an area with snow or ice, steal exhaust air from the house and blow it through the radome before doing further heat recovery or flusing it to the outside world. Equipment could be subsidized through the length of the contract for service (just like free cell phones) to reduce the initial sticker shock.
Or, subsidze research to limit or elliminate the nasty side affects of interference from powerline distribution of Internet service. For example they would be greatly reduced if during routine powerline maintenance they replaced the ground wire of the high tension line with "fog wire" (fiberoptic core with a copper / steel reinforced wrap/cover). One could allow for limited powerline distribution for 5-10 years to be gradually replaced by "fog wire" style distribution (require all new or repaired rural power grid systems to use fogwire?).
Underwater robot wars.... YEAHHH!!!!
In Soviet Russia the Ogg capitalize you.
Will it update itself in realtime?
There aren't any fair witnesses. The guys own site is obviously biased. The papers are being told the story they report, presumably by the sheriffs department; in any case they don't have the web developers side of the story. Personally I think it is plausible to tell someone, "sure I'll do this thing, and we can work out the rates later" particularly when said person is in the process of an election and may not yet have the power to pay you. Having written off more than one client debt as uncollectable I am biased too. From a pure business point of view, he paid all the expenses for the website and should be free to turn it off. Asking for money to turn it back on is not unreasonable. Clearly to me at least this is a civil matter. I hardly see it to be extortion to ask for money to continue providing a service that was never fully negotiated (and apparently difficult to negotiate). It seems like he may have a case for malicious prosecution and several civil rights violations. No matter how you look at it the department in question should not have been the one to seize anything related to the case. Big conflict of interest there. All of the evidence that might have been there is IMHO very tainted at this point. I expect this guy should go free and maybe he'll get more after his lawsuits settle than he originally billed. The law enforcement went way over the top in what should have been a civil matter. Note that in order for the web designer to take the department to court to collect his debt he most likely had to bill for his services. And, there may have been pressure to lock the guy up as intimidation since most likely contracting for services (even if you don't set the rate) before you take office is probably illegal. A good bru ha ha, ha ha ... in any case.