And they'd be even less profitable if the replacement units had year warranties instead of the warranty ending at the end of the first unit's year.
They're going to be profitable because of everyone who has replaced one a time or three under warranty now having to buy new ones.
My second warranty replacement died last weekend. Now I'm out of warranty.
Worst part is, even if I buy a new one I have to beg them to refund my XBLA purchases so I can get them on the new box... or spend $100 buying them again, too.
Thats good in theory, but isn't so useful if you live in a country that has a government that doesn't feel like it needs to follow any written constitution of common understanding of human rights.
You know like North Korea. China. Iran. The United States.
In those countries, you better be careful what you say.
That has nothing to do with it, but is a very common misperception.
Its expensive because you buy a T1 circuit (point to point) from your telco for some large amount per month. Typically you pay an amount that covers BOTH endpoints.
Then you buy internet service from an ISP. They charge you for bandwidth, and the maintaining of the endpont at their location.
Thats why its expensive... because T1's are NOT internet connections, they're purely a dedicated line to another location.
Thats true of any "business class" service until you start talking to newer fiber technology like FIOS. All the DS* lines, OC* optical lines, connections into fiber rings of SONET are all just connectivity options to another location and have nothing to do with the Internet.
FIOS is so much cheaper because you're buying an internet connection over a dedicated fiber link to the CO, not a dedicated circuit across the state or the country.
They won't get bit by it... there's a ton of prior art covering the exact set of claims in the patent.
I doubt anyone at MS is sweating it... I wrote three web development frameworks going back seven years before that application producing web applications from metadata driven definitions of collections of XML-aware objects. They did some cool stuff but were hardly unique.
MS won't have to look very hard to find prior art to get it tossed.
Yikes. Go download PING. It'll do the same thing in a LOT less time, and can do it over the network saving even more time.
An hour to image a machine?
The problem with DD is it has to write all the empty bits of the disk, too. A good imaging solution knows the filesystem and only writes the files. Since most desktops may have 5-6 gig of software on them by default, you don't want to be wasting time writing 80 or 100 gig of zeros.
For the vast majority of the rest, calling it "infringement" amounts to saying we don't have the right to our own culture. Yup, and thats the law. Feeling its wrong, having it be common sense its wrong doesn't make it legal.
Actually, I think the reason we don't have malaria in the US is because malaria doesn't survive freeze cycles (no idea if its because the pathogen doesn't, or if it something with the infection vector in mosquitoes that a die-off prevents infection).
There's been a lot of articles written about how climate changes could move the malaria zone into the US as areas that do not experience freezes start to move further north. (Something with central Mexico being a natural barrier, etc)
If you RTFP, what's actually being patented is the idea of using multiple pointers so that the same item can be in more than one linked list at a time. This idea is also a long way from being novel, but it's slightly different from patenting the linked list. Arguably a doubly-linked list is prior art... Well, thats the key of any patent story on Slashdot -- no one responding knows how to read a patent. They don't seem to understand, no matter how often someone explains it, that the claims are read in sequence, and if your solution doesn't infringe leaf nodes in the tree of claims, it doesn't infringe.
You bought a lousy bulb, then. Good CFL bulbs come up at 90% brightness immediately, unless it is unusually cold (colder than you're likely to keep your house).
My entire house is CFL including 20 or so dimmable reflector CFL bulbs. A small handful of bulbs (ironically, almost all lower-quality GE from Walmart) take a moment to turn on and may take 15 seconds to come up to brightness. The vast majority turn on instantly and have no noticable ramp-up.
I actually moved around a couple of the cheap ones into lights that I tend to flip on at night... the added time to come up to brightness is good on my dark-adjusted eyes.
I disagree, strongly. In the past, epidemics did NOT cause the shutdown of business and commerce. People still need to produce, people still need to make a living. The rise of technology means its EASIER to do so. During a pandemic, its easy to keep from dropping dead like flies -- use appropriate masks when you must be out in public, wash frequently and avoid interacting with people until it passes. The internet is ideal for facilitating that without massive global economic collapse.
This article is important! While some people seem to think its a propaganda piece to convince people to invest in greater telco resources, I can guarantee you that billions of dollars are being spent by companies around the world who have a responsibility to their shareholders to take this substantial risk into account. Keeping the world moving during a potentially months long pandemic takes a lot of work and this is one tiny piece of it. Just because the average Slashdotter may not understand the importance of business continuity doesn't mean its not of critical importance.
You and the GP need to read up a bit on the history of Patents, because clearly neither of you understand them or understand how they've impacted various industries.
Hint: every tiny detail of how cars worked has been patented. And expired a hundred years ago.
In fact the cries about patent problems these days at best mirror, and in reality are probably less seriousthan they were in the 1800's.
Yup, that was really a fantastic game. Not just free-look but it had open maps. You could go into buildings, the game was very free-form.
Unfortunately, they made it somewhat too free form. It was easy to do something that screwed you later in the game, like blowing up a bridge you would later have to cross.
Its also worth pointing out, because it has not been mentioned in the national media, that there are ATHF billboards around the city, including a very prominent one on I90 coming into Boston with a Mooninite on it.
Slashdot Mirror
HD means harddrive.
Apparently the moderators missed that, too, though.
And they'd be even less profitable if the replacement units had year warranties instead of the warranty ending at the end of the first unit's year.
They're going to be profitable because of everyone who has replaced one a time or three under warranty now having to buy new ones.
My second warranty replacement died last weekend. Now I'm out of warranty.
Worst part is, even if I buy a new one I have to beg them to refund my XBLA purchases so I can get them on the new box... or spend $100 buying them again, too.
That can't hurt their bottom line either...
Thats good in theory, but isn't so useful if you live in a country that has a government that doesn't feel like it needs to follow any written constitution of common understanding of human rights.
You know like North Korea. China. Iran. The United States.
In those countries, you better be careful what you say.
Lucky? Seems to me for the safety of the flight hardware, it should be mandatory!
That has nothing to do with it, but is a very common misperception.
Its expensive because you buy a T1 circuit (point to point) from your telco for some large amount per month. Typically you pay an amount that covers BOTH endpoints.
Then you buy internet service from an ISP. They charge you for bandwidth, and the maintaining of the endpont at their location.
Thats why its expensive... because T1's are NOT internet connections, they're purely a dedicated line to another location.
Thats true of any "business class" service until you start talking to newer fiber technology like FIOS. All the DS* lines, OC* optical lines, connections into fiber rings of SONET are all just connectivity options to another location and have nothing to do with the Internet.
FIOS is so much cheaper because you're buying an internet connection over a dedicated fiber link to the CO, not a dedicated circuit across the state or the country.
They won't get bit by it... there's a ton of prior art covering the exact set of claims in the patent.
I doubt anyone at MS is sweating it... I wrote three web development frameworks going back seven years before that application producing web applications from metadata driven definitions of collections of XML-aware objects. They did some cool stuff but were hardly unique.
MS won't have to look very hard to find prior art to get it tossed.
Could be worse, he could go hunting with Dick Cheney.
Yes, and my even lower one lets me get your back.
Those damn whippersnappers....
That helps taking the image... putting it back, DD still has to write all the decompressed zeros.
DD has its place, but imaging a whole desktop is not it. There are massively better free tools for that.
Yikes. Go download PING. It'll do the same thing in a LOT less time, and can do it over the network saving even more time.
An hour to image a machine?
The problem with DD is it has to write all the empty bits of the disk, too. A good imaging solution knows the filesystem and only writes the files. Since most desktops may have 5-6 gig of software on them by default, you don't want to be wasting time writing 80 or 100 gig of zeros.
A five year old knows you can't take something that isn't yours...
You don't need a law degree. Just ask a five year old.
How about making it mandatory as an clause attached to the 19th Amendment?
Yeah heaven forbid an important decision could be made via non-verifiable means with no paper trail...
to saying we don't have the right to our own culture. Yup, and thats the law. Feeling its wrong, having it be common sense its wrong doesn't make it legal.
Changing the law will make it legal.
Actually, I think the reason we don't have malaria in the US is because malaria doesn't survive freeze cycles (no idea if its because the pathogen doesn't, or if it something with the infection vector in mosquitoes that a die-off prevents infection).
There's been a lot of articles written about how climate changes could move the malaria zone into the US as areas that do not experience freezes start to move further north. (Something with central Mexico being a natural barrier, etc)
Hey, this is a family site!
You bought a lousy bulb, then. Good CFL bulbs come up at 90% brightness immediately, unless it is unusually cold (colder than you're likely to keep your house).
My entire house is CFL including 20 or so dimmable reflector CFL bulbs. A small handful of bulbs (ironically, almost all lower-quality GE from Walmart) take a moment to turn on and may take 15 seconds to come up to brightness. The vast majority turn on instantly and have no noticable ramp-up.
I actually moved around a couple of the cheap ones into lights that I tend to flip on at night... the added time to come up to brightness is good on my dark-adjusted eyes.
Actually is FUD if its not about a person. When its about a person, its called Libel.
I disagree, strongly. In the past, epidemics did NOT cause the shutdown of business and commerce. People still need to produce, people still need to make a living. The rise of technology means its EASIER to do so. During a pandemic, its easy to keep from dropping dead like flies -- use appropriate masks when you must be out in public, wash frequently and avoid interacting with people until it passes. The internet is ideal for facilitating that without massive global economic collapse.
This article is important! While some people seem to think its a propaganda piece to convince people to invest in greater telco resources, I can guarantee you that billions of dollars are being spent by companies around the world who have a responsibility to their shareholders to take this substantial risk into account. Keeping the world moving during a potentially months long pandemic takes a lot of work and this is one tiny piece of it. Just because the average Slashdotter may not understand the importance of business continuity doesn't mean its not of critical importance.
You and the GP need to read up a bit on the history of Patents, because clearly neither of you understand them or understand how they've impacted various industries.
Hint: every tiny detail of how cars worked has been patented. And expired a hundred years ago.
In fact the cries about patent problems these days at best mirror, and in reality are probably less seriousthan they were in the 1800's.
Yup, that was really a fantastic game. Not just free-look but it had open maps. You could go into buildings, the game was very free-form.
Unfortunately, they made it somewhat too free form. It was easy to do something that screwed you later in the game, like blowing up a bridge you would later have to cross.
Its also worth pointing out, because it has not been mentioned in the national media, that there are ATHF billboards around the city, including a very prominent one on I90 coming into Boston with a Mooninite on it.