There have been a few officials at the USPO that have stated that the patent office no longer has the resources to investigate the patents that are applied for. Instead they just approve everything and let the lawyers fight it out afterwards. He who has the mightiest lawyer wins.
The problem with that is it negates the whole point of patents in the first place: inovation. Now, instead of loan inventors creating inovative ideas, we have a bunch of big corporations with a new tool to help promote their own monopolies.
It's called mob mentality, and/. is full of it (myself included). Just follow any holy war on here. When ignorant people get religious you end up with crusades.
Even if every/. reader only made half informed emotional posts 1% (reasonable) of the time, the sheer volume of traffic on/. makes mob mentality a painful reality.
Slightly OT, but, am I the only person that has felt neurotic after drinking Pepsi One? I drank one can and I felt like I was on a magic carpet ride. I've never touched the stuff since. A few of my friends have also had a similar experience with the stuff.
Do you really think the first heart/lung/kidney/etc transplant was tested on a human? Is mutating bacteria as bad as mutating a fruit fly? Is mutating a fruit fly as bad as mutating a mouse? Who draws the line on what's bad?
Come on man. We farm cows. They are grown for our consumption. We mutate other organisms for our own benefit. Is it any worse than how parasites, carnivores, insects, etc survive? Nature does not have ethics.
I don't think Rob has control over the ads that show up in the banner. They come from a 3rd party. If Microsoft wants to fund a portal site that advocates a movement that is going to be their demise, more power to them:).
Because those are IIS servers and you can't bring them down..
Well, consider the fact that there are 96 Compaq Proliant 5500 (quad ppro boxes) running microsoft.com on a fiber optics backbone... Check it out for yourself. It must be nice to have the cash to fix software shortcomings with hardware;).
The thing is, nobody cares. With the blistering speed that OSS develops, anybody with at least the mental capacity of a newt knows that OSS will overtake all others. It's only a matter of time. Linux development has only begun to take off. What happens when SGI starts merging Irix with Linux? How far will Windows be in 2 years? How far will linux be in 2 years? What about 10 years? What would a benchmark look like between linux and NT 4 years ago? What will it look like 4 years from now? Can you still not see the big picture? 4 years ago nobody would have believed Microsoft would be funding benchmarks against a piece of freeware. Now they are. Why? What are they afraid of?
Since the apartments are cable ready, you might be able to get away with just putting a 10base2 NIC in the computer with the cable modem attached and hooking the NIC up to the 'regular' cable coax outlet. Ethernet is all broadcast anyway. If you are close enough (1000 feet?) it will probably work. The neighbors might complain about snow on some of the channels though;)
That's pretty far off from now, so I wouldn't be too worried about maxing out the mhz. Then again, 640k is all anybody will ever need;).
On a side note, why don't designers use 3D designs? It just seems like 2D transistor grids aren't the optimum. In 3d, the clock pulse would have a much shorter path to follow, allowing higher clock speeds. Sure, it would take a 100k layer process, but you could get away with a much smaller die size.
Linda Tripp to the contrary, normally recording someone's conversation on a tape recorder is illegal unless you let them know you are doing it. This is why customer service 800 numbers say something like "This call may be monitored for quality purposes".
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure recording a conversation isn't illegal, just that using the recording against the person you recorded opens you up to a lawsuit for defemation of character, emotional distress, etc. Recording isn't illegal (or shouldn't be), slander is.
An old co-worker of mine used to work for a telco and he used to do work where he would test phone lines with a lineman's handset. Sometimes when he would connect the lines he would hear a phone conversation going on. He said that he wasn't allowed to divulge what he heard, even if he heard somebody being murdered and he was brought to testify in court. He would have gotten fired if he did. But the fact remains that he did hear other people's phone conversations regularly on the job.
"Are you talking on a cellular phone? Who is this. I don't know you. I'm hanging up the phone now. Prank caller prank caller!"
My old TV picks up cellular phone calls all the time. It's hard to see how it could be illegal for me to tune into channel 4, sit back, and listen to a cell phone call from johny jockstrap asking mom for more tution money cause he blew his on crack. If that's illegal then tapeing somebody's conversation with a hand held recorder is illegal too. Hell, evesdropping on somebody else's conversation would be 'invasion' of privacy.
The data is in the air, regardless of wether it's RF (cell phone) or audio (vocal conversation). When you broadcast your thoughts to everybody, your rights to privacy end.
That's exactly my sentiment as well. The mouse wheel would be perfect for a 3D window manager. No need to minimize windows, just zip them into the distant Z direction using the mouse wheel. Control/Shift-Mouse wheel and you could *move* through the Z direction, eliminating the need for virtual desktops. Kind of like a first person 3d shooter game, except the walls would be your xterms;). Some mice have two wheels and you could use the horizontal one to spin the window around the Y axis or whatever.
I've actually met a guy at the local LUG that wrote an extension to X that allowed for 3D windows (you would use a combination of keyboard/mouse to move the window in the z direction), but it usually crashed within a few minutes and was dog slow:(.
I have a few friends that are still on 1.2.13 and have no plans to upgrade. For them there is no reason to. All of the devices they use are supported, all of the features they want are already there, and 1.2.13 has a much smaller memory footprint.
Is it that hard to see? They changed their page layout and tweeked the software, and now they are getting data corruption. It doesn't have anything to do with Solaris or Oracle. If you design a database that can't correctly handle concurrency, doesn't have good constraints, no triggers, etc. ad nauseum, then you are going to get data corruption. Also, the whole 'high availability' arguement is laughable. eBay's buggy software is still has high availability.;) Just because their software crashes doesn't mean Oracle and Solaris are crashing.
My favorite is the ratio. Look how much swearing goes on in/arch/sparc and/arch/sparc64 compared to the other architectures. Sparcs must really be frustrating at the system level;)
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I'll have to agree with Mark Evans on this one. For the longest time, the 2.1 Documentation link was broken on the old linuxhq. This is of course, before 2.2 came out. I periodically checked that link for months and it never got fixed. I did like the old linuxhq site, but it did have a few maintenance problems.
Typecast actors?!? He didn't want typecast actors!?!? When I saw Samuel L. Jackson all I could think about was his biblical line in Pulp Fiction. "The boy is dangerous. You won't train him, Qui-Gon. If you try to train him without the counsel's permission, then you will know my name is the lord when I lay my vengance upon thee."
Not to be stereotypical, but statistically I've found that bi-sexual women have a lot more in common with geeks than normal tee-hee girls. You might have better luck with a girl that uses both sides of The Force;)
The reason those membrane keyboard cash registers work so well is because it's against the law (at least in AZ) to handle money and then handle food. You legally have to wash your hands first, so most fast food places have 'food' people and 'register' people. Nobody really does both.
I definately wouldn't want to touch that keyboard. Instant e.coli death. Voice recognition might work, but that would be pretty awkward in a quiet bathroom, hearing 4 different guys in stalls talking to themselves.
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There have been a few officials at the USPO that have stated that the patent office no longer has the resources to investigate the patents that are applied for. Instead they just approve everything and let the lawyers fight it out afterwards. He who has the mightiest lawyer wins.
The problem with that is it negates the whole point of patents in the first place: inovation. Now, instead of loan inventors creating inovative ideas, we have a bunch of big corporations with a new tool to help promote their own monopolies.
It's called mob mentality, and /. is full of it (myself included). Just follow any holy war on here. When ignorant people get religious you end up with crusades.
/. reader only made half informed emotional posts 1% (reasonable) of the time, the sheer volume of traffic on /. makes mob mentality a painful reality.
Even if every
Slightly OT, but, am I the only person that has felt neurotic after drinking Pepsi One? I drank one can and I felt like I was on a magic carpet ride. I've never touched the stuff since. A few of my friends have also had a similar experience with the stuff.
It's called Josta. Good stuff.
Do you really think the first heart/lung/kidney/etc transplant was tested on a human? Is mutating bacteria as bad as mutating a fruit fly? Is mutating a fruit fly as bad as mutating a mouse? Who draws the line on what's bad?
Come on man. We farm cows. They are grown for our consumption. We mutate other organisms for our own benefit. Is it any worse than how parasites, carnivores, insects, etc survive? Nature does not have ethics.
I don't think Rob has control over the ads that show up in the banner. They come from a 3rd party. If Microsoft wants to fund a portal site that advocates a movement that is going to be their demise, more power to them :).
FYI you can use setfont to fix it. It would be nice if X didn't trash the console though...
LOL! :)
Because those are IIS servers and you can't bring them down..
;).
Well, consider the fact that there are 96 Compaq Proliant 5500 (quad ppro boxes) running microsoft.com on a fiber optics backbone... Check it out for yourself. It must be nice to have the cash to fix software shortcomings with hardware
The thing is, nobody cares. With the blistering speed that OSS develops, anybody with at least the mental capacity of a newt knows that OSS will overtake all others. It's only a matter of time. Linux development has only begun to take off. What happens when SGI starts merging Irix with Linux? How far will Windows be in 2 years? How far will linux be in 2 years? What about 10 years? What would a benchmark look like between linux and NT 4 years ago? What will it look like 4 years from now? Can you still not see the big picture? 4 years ago nobody would have believed Microsoft would be funding benchmarks against a piece of freeware. Now they are. Why? What are they afraid of?
Since the apartments are cable ready, you might be able to get away with just putting a 10base2 NIC in the computer with the cable modem attached and hooking the NIC up to the 'regular' cable coax outlet. Ethernet is all broadcast anyway. If you are close enough (1000 feet?) it will probably work. The neighbors might complain about snow on some of the channels though ;)
That's pretty far off from now, so I wouldn't be too worried about maxing out the mhz. Then again, 640k is all anybody will ever need ;).
On a side note, why don't designers use 3D designs? It just seems like 2D transistor grids aren't the optimum. In 3d, the clock pulse would have a much shorter path to follow, allowing higher clock speeds. Sure, it would take a 100k layer process, but you could get away with a much smaller die size.
Linda Tripp to the contrary, normally recording someone's conversation on a tape recorder is illegal unless you let them know you are doing it.
This is why customer service 800 numbers say something like "This call may be monitored for quality purposes".
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure recording a conversation isn't illegal, just that using the recording against the person you recorded opens you up to a lawsuit for defemation of character, emotional distress, etc. Recording isn't illegal (or shouldn't be), slander is.
An old co-worker of mine used to work for a telco and he used to do work where he would test phone lines with a lineman's handset. Sometimes when he would connect the lines he would hear a phone conversation going on. He said that he wasn't allowed to divulge what he heard, even if he heard somebody being murdered and he was brought to testify in court. He would have gotten fired if he did. But the fact remains that he did hear other people's phone conversations regularly on the job.
From Pulp Fiction:
"Are you talking on a cellular phone? Who is this. I don't know you. I'm hanging up the phone now. Prank caller prank caller!"
My old TV picks up cellular phone calls all the time. It's hard to see how it could be illegal for me to tune into channel 4, sit back, and listen to a cell phone call from johny jockstrap asking mom for more tution money cause he blew his on crack. If that's illegal then tapeing somebody's conversation with a hand held recorder is illegal too. Hell, evesdropping on somebody else's conversation would be 'invasion' of privacy.
The data is in the air, regardless of wether it's RF (cell phone) or audio (vocal conversation). When you broadcast your thoughts to everybody, your rights to privacy end.
cat storage | gzip -d > thought
Maybe the 'gzip' is why you have to think about a memory before you can recall it. Thinking about it just decompresses it.
"Obi-Wan has taught you well, but you are not a Jedi yet."
That's exactly my sentiment as well. The mouse wheel would be perfect for a 3D window manager. No need to minimize windows, just zip them into the distant Z direction using the mouse wheel. Control/Shift-Mouse wheel and you could *move* through the Z direction, eliminating the need for virtual desktops. Kind of like a first person 3d shooter game, except the walls would be your xterms ;). Some mice have two wheels and you could use the horizontal one to spin the window around the Y axis or whatever.
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I've actually met a guy at the local LUG that wrote an extension to X that allowed for 3D windows (you would use a combination of keyboard/mouse to move the window in the z direction), but it usually crashed within a few minutes and was dog slow
I have a few friends that are still on 1.2.13 and have no plans to upgrade. For them there is no reason to. All of the devices they use are supported, all of the features they want are already there, and 1.2.13 has a much smaller memory footprint.
Is it that hard to see? They changed their page layout and tweeked the software, and now they are getting data corruption. It doesn't have anything to do with Solaris or Oracle. If you design a database that can't correctly handle concurrency, doesn't have good constraints, no triggers, etc. ad nauseum, then you are going to get data corruption. Also, the whole 'high availability' arguement is laughable. eBay's buggy software is still has high availability. ;) Just because their software crashes doesn't mean Oracle and Solaris are crashing.
It's just more FUD from the Empire.
My favorite is the ratio. Look how much swearing goes on in /arch/sparc and /arch/sparc64 compared to the other architectures. Sparcs must really be frustrating at the system level ;)
I'll have to agree with Mark Evans on this one. For the longest time, the 2.1 Documentation link was broken on the old linuxhq. This is of course, before 2.2 came out. I periodically checked that link for months and it never got fixed. I did like the old linuxhq site, but it did have a few maintenance problems.
Typecast actors?!? He didn't want typecast actors!?!? When I saw Samuel L. Jackson all I could think about was his biblical line in Pulp Fiction. "The boy is dangerous. You won't train him, Qui-Gon. If you try to train him without the counsel's permission, then you will know my name is the lord when I lay my vengance upon thee."
Not to be stereotypical, but statistically I've found that bi-sexual women have a lot more in common with geeks than normal tee-hee girls. You might have better luck with a girl that uses both sides of The Force ;)
The reason those membrane keyboard cash registers work so well is because it's against the law (at least in AZ) to handle money and then handle food. You legally have to wash your hands first, so most fast food places have 'food' people and 'register' people. Nobody really does both.
I definately wouldn't want to touch that keyboard. Instant e.coli death. Voice recognition might work, but that would be pretty awkward in a quiet bathroom, hearing 4 different guys in stalls talking to themselves.