Actually, while it is true that part of the claims of the patent involve user profiles, claims 1, 6 and 11 refer to 'a single user action', and it appears that all other claims are what are called dependent claims on one of those three. So two clicks is arugably okay for B&N. Or two keystrokes--but not one. (See the reference below.)
Never trust a news organization to correctly detail the specifics of a patent. The specifics tend to involve a lot of weasel-wording and are easy to get wrong even for the well-informed.
I've seen phototransistor arrays (think of them as an alternative technology to CCDs) made of vertical bipolar transistors being used in the late 1980s.
What's interesting to me is their use as general purpose transistors in dense arrays.
I seem to recall that at least many years ago (call it eight) that one of the problems with implementing structures like that on existing fabrication lines was that those lines didn't control the thickness of the gate oxide (or was it something else?) sufficiently for the (analog) tasks my coworkers were using it for. That's probably less critcial in digital applications, but I wonder: Does this require significant modifications to existing fab lines, or worse, entirely new ones?
I'm wondering if that refers to the SRL Shock Box that was shown at an Artspace installation several years back. Basically a huge capacitor with exposed plates, you could throw metal objects (cans, etc.) at it and it throw them back. (Actually, the can would short out the capacitor, some of the metal would vaporize and propel the can back, more or less.)
Moderately cool, but the Electrum (Tesla Coil) was way better.
Sorry, it is absolutely not a dummy. Greg Leyh is a friend of mine, and runs LOD. He's been in the terminal during public runs that I've attended, at places like the Phoenix Ironworks several years back and at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
He isn't the only one, but I haven't been up myself.
I have been musing for years on how to help him build "the Big Coil", which he refers to on the web pages as the Advanced Lightning Facility. At 3-5 million dollars, it seems like something within the range of a charitable organization. Heh heh.
The conditional skips definitely lead to subtle code. For one thing, you can do interesting complex expressions with consecutive multiple conditional skip instructions.
Better, A lot of times you end up skipping over non-branch instructions and that idiom ends up being great for code that has to count clocks (wire protocols and the like), since the skipped instruction still takes a cycle to be skipped.
I have to ask: Are you including (in your 1 success in 10 attempts) IPOs available generally or just those you were invited into? I've had very good luck getting into the latter.
Do I have big $$? I dunno, define big. I certainly don't think so, and I certainly don't expect that I'm a preferred E*Trade customer...
Great editorial, but I have a nit. The conclusion of the article could be paraphrased as "if you don't realize tht Stallman is an activist, you might think he's a 'raving, bitter, jealous person.'" In my experience being an activist in other areas of my life, I can tell you that often the most effective actvists are embittered raving people. At times, I have been most effective when, to some extent, I've been bitter and forceful.
The editorial goes on to attribute a lot of idealism to Stallman's goals. I don't think it's necessary or productive to debate his motivation. The idea that people do things for a single reason is usually overly simplistic anyway. The question is, Is he being effective? Frankly, in these circumstances, I think so. We're seeing a lot of press on this subject, and awareness of GNU and/or Linux are on the rise. Stallman deserves some credit for this (as well as many other things).
Even so, I still call it Linux. But I'm glad he's asking the question.
--Joe Decker
Never any source code for these things. Why?
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You are absolutely right that I misread the quote. Thanks for pointing this out to me.
Rereading it, I disbelieve 1-in-6, it is, in my experience, way too low.
(I'll stick by my statement that comparing the general population with the general college population will give you vastly different results, however, and that was the point I was originally trying to make.)
If you read what you are disagreeing with, you'll find that the author of that said that 1 in 6 college students will be raped before graduation. The usual 1 in 3 statistic refers to people overall... college students are younger on average than the general population and are therefore less likely to have been raped.... yet.
If you want to be less leary of the statistics, do some research for yourself. I agree that any number like this is subject to a variety of forms of statistical bias, but you will find, if you do the research, that 1 in 3 is about the right order of magnitude no matter how you define the problem.
It is also consistent with my personal experience.
No, I think you misunderstand. People who are already modifiers get 1 'point', as I understand it, per 100 articles posted to slashdot by *anyone*. So effectively this limits how much damage a single moderator can do pretty strongly, which sounds like a good idea.
Almost certainly nothing approaching a big-ol' multiuser system. A system like that, you'd probably either write everything from top to bottom yourself, or use some sort of standard RTOS. My money is on the former, but I don't know for sure.
Slashdot Mirror
> ...www.fortify.com...
You mean: www.fortify.net
--j
The comment about DESCHALL having broken 56 bit "last week" was suggestive to me, but at the bottom, note:
SOURCE Netscape Communications Corp. -0- 06/24/97
Past news. Ah well.
--j
Actually, while it is true that part of the claims of the patent involve user profiles, claims 1, 6 and 11 refer to 'a single user action', and it appears that all other claims are what are called dependent claims on one of those three. So two clicks is arugably okay for B&N. Or two keystrokes--but not one. (See the reference below.)
Never trust a news organization to correctly detail the specifics of a patent. The specifics tend to involve a lot of weasel-wording and are easy to get wrong even for the well-informed.
Check it out yourself here.
I've seen phototransistor arrays (think of them as an alternative technology to CCDs) made of vertical bipolar transistors being used in the late 1980s.
What's interesting to me is their use as general purpose transistors in dense arrays.
I seem to recall that at least many years ago (call it eight) that one of the problems with implementing structures like that on existing fabrication lines was that those lines didn't control the thickness of the gate oxide (or was it something else?) sufficiently for the (analog) tasks my coworkers were using it for. That's probably less critcial in digital applications, but I wonder: Does this require significant modifications to existing fab lines, or worse, entirely new ones?
I'm wondering if that refers to the SRL Shock Box that was shown at an Artspace installation several years back. Basically a huge capacitor with exposed plates, you could throw metal objects (cans, etc.) at it and it throw them back. (Actually, the can would short out the capacitor, some of the metal would vaporize and propel the can back, more or less.)
Moderately cool, but the Electrum (Tesla Coil) was way better.
Sorry, it is absolutely not a dummy. Greg Leyh is a friend of mine, and runs LOD. He's been in the terminal during public runs that I've attended, at places like the Phoenix Ironworks several years back and at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
He isn't the only one, but I haven't been up myself.
I have been musing for years on how to help him build "the Big Coil", which he refers to on the web pages as the Advanced Lightning Facility. At 3-5 million dollars, it seems like something within the range of a charitable organization. Heh heh.
Agreed: I love the PIC series.
The conditional skips definitely lead to subtle code. For one thing, you can do interesting complex expressions with consecutive multiple conditional skip instructions.
Better, A lot of times you end up skipping over non-branch instructions and that idiom ends up being great for code that has to count clocks (wire protocols and the like), since the skipped instruction still takes a cycle to be skipped.
Sigh... :-)
--j
I have to ask: Are you including (in your 1 success in 10 attempts) IPOs available generally or just those you were invited into? I've had very good luck getting into the latter.
Do I have big $$? I dunno, define big. I certainly don't think so, and I certainly don't expect that I'm a preferred E*Trade customer...
Doh!
2^1061 - 1?
Great editorial, but I have a nit. The conclusion of the article could be paraphrased as "if you don't realize tht Stallman is an activist, you might think he's a 'raving, bitter, jealous person.'" In my experience being an activist in other areas of my life, I can tell you that often the most effective actvists are embittered raving people. At times, I have been most effective when, to some extent, I've been bitter and forceful.
The editorial goes on to attribute a lot of idealism to Stallman's goals. I don't think it's necessary or productive to debate his motivation. The idea that people do things for a single reason is usually overly simplistic anyway. The question is, Is he being effective? Frankly, in these circumstances, I think so. We're seeing a lot of press on this subject, and awareness of GNU and/or Linux are on the rise. Stallman deserves some credit for this (as well as many other things).
Even so, I still call it Linux. But I'm glad he's asking the question.
--Joe Decker
Some do.
GIMPS, "The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search", is currently pullling more than half a teraflop using idle cycles to find large prime numbers, and the source for its clients is at http://www.mersenne.org/source.htm .
--Joe
You are absolutely right that I misread
the quote. Thanks for pointing this out
to me.
Rereading it, I disbelieve 1-in-6, it is,
in my experience, way too low.
(I'll stick by my statement that comparing
the general population with the general
college population will give you vastly
different results, however, and that was
the point I was originally trying to make.)
Thanks!
-Joe
If you read what you are disagreeing with, you'll find that the author of that said that 1 in 6 college students will be raped before graduation. The usual 1 in 3 statistic refers to people overall ... college students are younger on average than the general population and are therefore less likely to have been raped .... yet.
If you want to be less leary of the statistics, do some research for yourself. I agree that any number like this is subject to a variety of forms of statistical bias, but you will find, if you do the research, that 1 in 3 is about the right order of magnitude no matter how you define the problem.
It is also consistent with my personal experience.
No, I think you misunderstand. People who are already modifiers get 1 'point', as I understand it, per 100 articles posted to slashdot by *anyone*. So effectively this limits how much damage a single moderator can do pretty strongly, which sounds like a good idea.
There are book price comparison tools elsewhere, though. Here's one a friend of mine put together that I use: http://www.netroglycerine.com/booklist.html --Joe
Pretty impressive that they did this before :-)
the problem was actually released.
You're probably confusing this with the
contest six months ago. Check the RSA web
site for more details.
Almost certainly nothing approaching a
big-ol' multiuser system. A system like
that, you'd probably either write everything
from top to bottom yourself, or use some
sort of standard RTOS. My money is on the
former, but I don't know for sure.