The following functions will save the current location to a register when going to the beginning of the file or end of file with M-. You can then go back to the last place you were with C-x r j 1;;; a trick from ispell...;;; Let ?1 do the right thing when compiled. (defun lrd-int-char (char)
(cond
((and (fboundp 'characterp) (characterp char)) char)
((and (fboundp 'int-char) (integerp char)) (int-char char))
((integerp char) char)
(t (error "arg is not an int or a character"))));;;;;; misc. advice stuff
(defadvice beginning-of-buffer
(before bob-register first () activate)
"When going to beginning of buffer, save point in register 1"
(point-to-register (lrd-int-char ?1)))
(defadvice end-of-buffer
(before eob-register first () activate)
"When going to end of buffer, save point in register 1"
(point-to-register (lrd-int-char ?1)))
Procmail and sendmail (and mh's slocal, for that matter) probably had this capability well before the filing. However, to serve as prior art, you would need documented evidence that someone had conceived of using them to automatically respond to the content of a mail message prior to 1997. It's prior art, not prior capability.
Having said that, back in the late 80's/early 90's, when there were still people with dial-up UUCP connections still, there were a number of services which responded by email. Archie is the biggest one I remember off the top of my head, and if you go to http://www.yudit.org/gaspar/archie.txt you see:
Archie Email Help (Version 3.0)
HELP for the archie email server, as of 10 April, 1993.
And it does exactly what the patent claims, and more. It sends canned responses for quite a few commands, plus it can send dynamic responses to requests for searches. The patent is obviously invalid, and now that they are picking on big companies with lots of lawyers, they are going to get buried.
Unless you are actually writing a filesystem, a path is just metadata. Suppose that I replace the fine filesystem you usually use with one single lookup table, and a relational database that maps the old file path to the entry in the lookup table. Now, the file path is just metadata. From the user's perspective, nothing has changed in how they use the system at all, but that path is now very clearly metadata.
Dependency information is built directly into the.deb files at creation time, including version information, and any hand-crafted dependencies. Dpkg dependencies have been there since the start and Just Work.
At some point in the early 90's, MIT turned the X Window System over to the Open Group (which also owns the UNIX(tm) trademark and compliance tests). TOG has been providing the reference implementation all along, and is the keeper of the versioning scheme. In recent years, XFree86 has been the development center for the most popular implementation of X, based on TOG's reference implementation. For the most part, TOG hasn't coordinated any development effort, they've just occasionally released the Reference Implementation with patches from major contributors, including XFree86.
TOG, under the guise of x.org, still controls the reference implementation, and XFree86 still maintains their own implementation. The difference since the license change is that X.org, X developers and major contributors such as HP and Sun have joined forces to create the X.org foundation, which is coordinating development efforts for the x.org/TOG reference implementation.
Personally, I think this is the wrong fight. If they're using synths to provide part of the music, as long as they're open about it, it's no big deal. Let the market decide if it's important. About a year and a half ago, I saw Rush in concert. They use a variety of synths, sequencers and samples on stage, and it allows the 3 of them to do amazing things. It was a fantastic and wekk-attended show, and people got exactly what they paid for.
Similarly, DJ shows can be fantastic and worthwhile as well. There's a lot more to it than "just spinning records", and again, people know exactly what they are getting.
The practice I have a problem with is pop "concerts" that are simply a choreographed show to a recording of the performer in question. It blurs the line, and people are often not aware of what they are actually seeing. That's where the real tragedy is.
I live in Texas, where everything's bigger, especially the spring storms. Still, DirecTV goes out maybe 3-5 times a year, mostly during the spring storm season, for 5 minutes to a half hour. All in all, though, it's far better than cable has been to me.
The biggest reasons I won't give up my DirecTV for cable:
Price. DirecTV is about $9 per mo. cheaper than cable, and cable makes you pay extra to get TechTV. NFL Sunday Ticket. Only on DirecTV, and as a Packers fan in Texas, a must have. DirecTV TiVo. It really does change the way you watch TV. It may sound like a cliche, but you can't really understand the impact to your TV habits til you have one. Service. DirecTV, I've had to hold once when I called in, and that was the one time they've had a major outage that I've noticed, affecting locals only for a large part of the country during primetime. I had Comcast back when it was still TCI, and I was pretty much guaranteed a hold of at least 5-20 minutes.
In the past, when I had cable, I had picture quality problems (my cable would go completely out for a couple minutes eery 2-3 hours), and the process to get it fixed was just painful. Call the cable company, wait 45 minutes past the 4 hour service window they give, and the person who shows up is just a customer appeasement engineer who shows up, checks to make sure you're not a total idiot and that everything's hooked up correctly. CAE tells me there's nothing she can do, since it's not shoring the problem now, but tape it when it happens again and call back (tape static. Brilliance.) So, I do so, wait for the next guy, who has the ability to slap a tester on at the junction box and confirm the lines coming in to my apt. are OK. He's done all he can, so I have to get another appointment with the guys who can actually look for the problem, and after 2-3 visits from them, they finally find the poor connection somewhere down the line and fix it. The whole process took about a month.
On the other hand, I've had my dish for 3 years, and the only time I had a problem was twice when the gardening service knocked my dish out of whack (I live in an apartment, and the dish is attached to a pole embedded in cement in a bucket on the patio.) Took maybe 5 minutes to go out there, set the dish back in place, and I was good to go.
To call the 4 standards "competing" is, at best disengenuous. CDMA and GSM are competing. The only TDMA carriers of significance, AT&T and Cingular, are converting their networks to GSM. Nextel's IDEN becomes irrelevant in the first half of next year when Sprint and Verizon unveil their push to talk services over 3G. Also, the big 4 have shown time and time again that they're willing to buy up small systems for their licences and convert them to whatever standard the parent is using.
So, really, the battle will end up as GSM (AT&T, Cingular) vs. CDMA (Verizon, Sprint). And consolidation is not a problem.
The real barrier to cell phone penetration in the US is population density. Digital cell services just don't have the range that analog services do, and it's way too expensive for BigCellCo. to build out into BFE if they have to put up 1 tower for each customer they have out there.
Actually, it was even more bizarre than that. The way the law was stated, the offense was for the driver of a motor vehicle to be observed to take a drink from an open alcoholic beverage. IE, you can be driving down the road, drinking, and not only can you not be arrested, you've done nothing wrong, unless a cop actually SEES you take a drink.
Since then, the law has been modified, and Texas now has a boring open container law like pretty much every other state in the union.
If you go to http://www.songtitle.info/ they have some amount of commercial to song mapping available. Although, I miss adcritic as well, for the rest of the site. You'd think that a place where people went to see ads could make money off advertising...
The key is the "dual tuner" part. The DirecTiVo boxes have 2 DTV tuners in them, so you can record 2 shows at a time. To enable that capability, though, you need to have a dual LNB and 2 coax runs (so that it can tune in even and odd transponders at the same time).
Go with the conduit and string. You won't be able to anticipate every possible cable you might need, so prepare for any of them.
I was using Covad as my line provider. My ISP decided that they weren't going to do business with Covad any longer, and apparently, as part of resolving disputed charges between the two, Covad made them agree not to offer DSL to the transferred customers for 1 year. Covad gave 3 weeks notice that we had to transfer to Earthlink or be shut down. So, I will soon be without DSL for a couple days in the gap between Covad's shutting down my service and Verizon to my new provider. And I still don't have an arrangement I like (the new ISP offers multiple static IP's, but has a per-month bandwidth cap. The old one had routable blocks of 8, and no cap.) If they crater, maybe I'll end up with a chance to get back the DSL solution I really want.
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...and a very long exhaust hose so you don't kill yourself with the carbon monoxide?
Unless you perform a task that moves the mark before you jump back, of course :D
The following functions will save the current location to a register when going to the beginning of the file or end of file with M-. You can then go back to the last place you were with C-x r j 1 ;;; a trick from ispell... ;;; Let ?1 do the right thing when compiled. ;;; ;;; misc. advice stuff
(defun lrd-int-char (char)
(cond
((and (fboundp 'characterp) (characterp char)) char)
((and (fboundp 'int-char) (integerp char)) (int-char char))
((integerp char) char)
(t (error "arg is not an int or a character"))))
(defadvice beginning-of-buffer
(before bob-register first () activate)
"When going to beginning of buffer, save point in register 1"
(point-to-register (lrd-int-char ?1)))
(defadvice end-of-buffer
(before eob-register first () activate)
"When going to end of buffer, save point in register 1"
(point-to-register (lrd-int-char ?1)))
Procmail and sendmail (and mh's slocal, for that matter) probably had this capability well before the filing. However, to serve as prior art, you would need documented evidence that someone had conceived of using them to automatically respond to the content of a mail message prior to 1997. It's prior art, not prior capability.
Having said that, back in the late 80's/early 90's, when there were still people with dial-up UUCP connections still, there were a number of services which responded by email. Archie is the biggest one I remember off the top of my head, and if you go to http://www.yudit.org/gaspar/archie.txt you see:
Archie Email Help (Version 3.0)
HELP for the archie email server, as of 10 April, 1993.
And it does exactly what the patent claims, and more. It sends canned responses for quite a few commands, plus it can send dynamic responses to requests for searches. The patent is obviously invalid, and now that they are picking on big companies with lots of lawyers, they are going to get buried.
Unless you are actually writing a filesystem, a path is just metadata. Suppose that I replace the fine filesystem you usually use with one single lookup table, and a relational database that maps the old file path to the entry in the lookup table. Now, the file path is just metadata. From the user's perspective, nothing has changed in how they use the system at all, but that path is now very clearly metadata.
Dependency information is built directly into the .deb files at creation time, including version information, and any hand-crafted dependencies. Dpkg dependencies have been there since the start and Just Work.
Almost right.
At some point in the early 90's, MIT turned the X Window System over to the Open Group (which also owns the UNIX(tm) trademark and compliance tests). TOG has been providing the reference implementation all along, and is the keeper of the versioning scheme. In recent years, XFree86 has been the development center for the most popular implementation of X, based on TOG's reference implementation. For the most part, TOG hasn't coordinated any development effort, they've just occasionally released the Reference Implementation with patches from major contributors, including XFree86.
TOG, under the guise of x.org, still controls the reference implementation, and XFree86 still maintains their own implementation. The difference since the license change is that X.org, X developers and major contributors such as HP and Sun have joined forces to create the X.org foundation, which is coordinating development efforts for the x.org/TOG reference implementation.
Personally, I think this is the wrong fight. If they're using synths to provide part of the music, as long as they're open about it, it's no big deal. Let the market decide if it's important. About a year and a half ago, I saw Rush in concert. They use a variety of synths, sequencers and samples on stage, and it allows the 3 of them to do amazing things. It was a fantastic and wekk-attended show, and people got exactly what they paid for.
Similarly, DJ shows can be fantastic and worthwhile as well. There's a lot more to it than "just spinning records", and again, people know exactly what they are getting.
The practice I have a problem with is pop "concerts" that are simply a choreographed show to a recording of the performer in question. It blurs the line, and people are often not aware of what they are actually seeing. That's where the real tragedy is.
I live in Texas, where everything's bigger, especially the spring storms. Still, DirecTV goes out maybe 3-5 times a year, mostly during the spring storm season, for 5 minutes to a half hour. All in all, though, it's far better than cable has been to me.
The biggest reasons I won't give up my DirecTV for cable:
Price. DirecTV is about $9 per mo. cheaper than cable, and cable makes you pay extra to get TechTV.
NFL Sunday Ticket. Only on DirecTV, and as a Packers fan in Texas, a must have.
DirecTV TiVo. It really does change the way you watch TV. It may sound like a cliche, but you can't really understand the impact to your TV habits til you have one.
Service. DirecTV, I've had to hold once when I called in, and that was the one time they've had a major outage that I've noticed, affecting locals only for a large part of the country during primetime. I had Comcast back when it was still TCI, and I was pretty much guaranteed a hold of at least 5-20 minutes.
In the past, when I had cable, I had picture quality problems (my cable would go completely out for a couple minutes eery 2-3 hours), and the process to get it fixed was just painful. Call the cable company, wait 45 minutes past the 4 hour service window they give, and the person who shows up is just a customer appeasement engineer who shows up, checks to make sure you're not a total idiot and that everything's hooked up correctly. CAE tells me there's nothing she can do, since it's not shoring the problem now, but tape it when it happens again and call back (tape static. Brilliance.) So, I do so, wait for the next guy, who has the ability to slap a tester on at the junction box and confirm the lines coming in to my apt. are OK. He's done all he can, so I have to get another appointment with the guys who can actually look for the problem, and after 2-3 visits from them, they finally find the poor connection somewhere down the line and fix it. The whole process took about a month.
On the other hand, I've had my dish for 3 years, and the only time I had a problem was twice when the gardening service knocked my dish out of whack (I live in an apartment, and the dish is attached to a pole embedded in cement in a bucket on the patio.) Took maybe 5 minutes to go out there, set the dish back in place, and I was good to go.
To call the 4 standards "competing" is, at best disengenuous. CDMA and GSM are competing. The only TDMA carriers of significance, AT&T and Cingular, are converting their networks to GSM. Nextel's IDEN becomes irrelevant in the first half of next year when Sprint and Verizon unveil their push to talk services over 3G. Also, the big 4 have shown time and time again that they're willing to buy up small systems for their licences and convert them to whatever standard the parent is using.
So, really, the battle will end up as GSM (AT&T, Cingular) vs. CDMA (Verizon, Sprint). And consolidation is not a problem.
The real barrier to cell phone penetration in the US is population density. Digital cell services just don't have the range that analog services do, and it's way too expensive for BigCellCo. to build out into BFE if they have to put up 1 tower for each customer they have out there.
Actually, it was even more bizarre than that. The way the law was stated, the offense was for the driver of a motor vehicle to be observed to take a drink from an open alcoholic beverage. IE, you can be driving down the road, drinking, and not only can you not be arrested, you've done nothing wrong, unless a cop actually SEES you take a drink.
Since then, the law has been modified, and Texas now has a boring open container law like pretty much every other state in the union.
If you go to http://www.songtitle.info/ they have some amount of commercial to song mapping available. Although, I miss adcritic as well, for the rest of the site. You'd think that a place where people went to see ads could make money off advertising...
The key is the "dual tuner" part. The DirecTiVo boxes have 2 DTV tuners in them, so you can record 2 shows at a time. To enable that capability, though, you need to have a dual LNB and 2 coax runs (so that it can tune in even and odd transponders at the same time).
Go with the conduit and string. You won't be able to anticipate every possible cable you might need, so prepare for any of them.
I was using Covad as my line provider. My ISP decided that they weren't going to do business with Covad any longer, and apparently, as part of resolving disputed charges between the two, Covad made them agree not to offer DSL to the transferred customers for 1 year. Covad gave 3 weeks notice that we had to transfer to Earthlink or be shut down. So, I will soon be without DSL for a couple days in the gap between Covad's shutting down my service and Verizon to my new provider. And I still don't have an arrangement I like (the new ISP offers multiple static IP's, but has a per-month bandwidth cap. The old one had routable blocks of 8, and no cap.) If they crater, maybe I'll end up with a chance to get back the DSL solution I really want.