If you are really serious about being open with it then I would consider asking for the funding to file the patent. Keep the patent for yourself and just publish it on the web with terms such as Creative Commons.
The funding could come from private donations. A dollar here, a dollar there type of thing. Post a donation link to somewhere like Slashdot with a suitable teaser (or teasers if you want to attract a larger audience - multiple teasers targeting different demographics will only increase the size of the donation pool).
A few possible teasers for Slashdot...for the young crowd you could talk about how your invention would enable every individual to pour hot grits down Natalie's front. The middle age may enjoy something about the.cx domain. The old ones (see my Slashdot ID number) would be into something nostalgic - old hardware like Z80s for instance.
Another good things about the public fundraising - Documentation to help with any prior art disputes...
Dear SCOX, What good will this deposition do you?
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What will this deposition get you? What if PJ is really "Not who she seems to be?" What will it matter? What are you afraid of? Why are you trying to silence this one voice?
Could it be that you are afraid because the analysis and opinion of PJ's writings have "held water" over time? Are you tired of being put in a bad light because of the tactics you (I mean you and your lawyers) employ? Do you think that your image will improve without this one voice? What about all of the trade articles talking about your lawsuits against your customers? Is harrasment the best that you can do after all this time?
Many people have come to the conclusion that PJ is one person. Exposing this person probably will not have a positive impact on your image - even if it was someone linked to IBM. The ideas expressed on Groklaw are out there - you can't kill an idea! The simple fact that these ideas have held true over time irrespective of the voice that spoke them guarentees their immortality.
Silencing one voice will cause 1000 others to shout out. Open Source is about distributed development of software, hardware, community, public knowledge, and the human race. Remeber Ransom Love's warning: 'Don't do it,' Love says he told McBride. `You don't want to take on the entire Linux community.'
The first day that I had my UltraSPARC 10 at work I tried to use CDE... I hated it. I found that it was simple and quick but it wasn't very intuitive. So, off to FVWM.org I went. And I've been happy ever since. I've played with Gnome and KDE on various platforms - they are definietly pretty but they take up way too many resources.
It is all relative. I see three major categories of online-relations:
1. Two unattached people meet online.
2. Two people meet, one or both of them is in a dead relationship and are currently getting out.
3. Two people meet, and one or both of them are in a serious real-life relationship that they don't intend to leave.
My Morals:
One and two do not constitue adultery as long as there is commitment. If there isn't a commitment, then it's no different than a one night stand. Three is just out and out adultery.
The One Thing that bugs me about this article is that it automatically equates romance with sex. Romance does not mean an automatic roll in the hay. It is these people that can not see the difference between the two (hugging, touching and kissing vs. sex) that I think should not be in relationships - everyone should learn this before getting into a relationship.... yes, there is a direct link, romance should lead to sex, sex should lead to romance, starting a vicious circle BUT both parties should consent to every step along the way.
An anonymous post from somewhere deep in Russia to comp.so.windows contained a 250MB "patch" to the Windows source code. Improvements include the ability to compile with gcc 2.96, 65K bug fixes, thousands of speedups, and a cute Pengiun silhouette in the corner of the Windows boot up screen. Sources close to Microsoft said that their technicians issued a 'patch -p1', a several hours later went gold with the resulting product. "This is exactly what service pack 2 for Windows ME was going to look like, these folks just saved us the trouble of writing it;" an anonymous marketer at Microsoft said. "Users can expect to see the upgrade in stores in the next month, for a nominal charge of $450."
Does it not strike anyone else that they are comparing "Lower End, Value (tm)" processors to current top of the line stuff? Of course the top of the line stuff is going to be twice as fast - they are running at 1.5 - 2.0 times the speed!
Why not instead benchmark these inexpensive processors with various video cards like the ATI Radeon, S3 Savage and a GeForce2? Then for reference on the graphs, throw in the Athlon and PIII score for comparison. This would produce a useful graph - something that would allow me to decide if a "Value" system is what I should purchase next. This would also show where the framerate bottleneck is - the CPU or the GPU.
The second complaint I have is their choice of motherboard for the PIII/Celeron. Why not choose something like the Gigabyte GA-6VXE+. This motherboard features (as all Apollo Pro motherboards do, I suspect) an independent FSB - The front side bus of the processor is independent of the memory bus. My Celeron 600E has a 66MHz FSB, the memory bus is 133MHz. Wouldn't this reduce bus contention between the AGP card and the processor, resulting in better performance?
Shame on sharkyextreme for posting such poor benchmarking.
I have owned Number Nine cards with the original S3 chipsets (before the VirGE disasters). I moved from a Cirrus Logic 5429 VESA to the Number Nine FX Motion 531 - 2MB DRAM with a S3 868 chipset; I thought I was in heaven. Next I bought a Number Nine GXE 64 Pro with a S3 964, 220MHz TI RAMDAC, and 4MB VRAM - was drooling (...When I'm 64!). My final Number Nine card was the Number Nine FX Motion 771 that had 2MB VRAM and an S3 968 chipset. I bought it thinking that I could toss 2MB more VRAM on it, but it didn't have sockets. It was still a pretty card. All of these Number Nine cards worked beautifully with X - they still do.
Then S3 started designing things like the VirGE. Number Nine was never the same after that. I wish I had experience with the Number Nine TTR series with their own graphics engines.... Anyone have one or two for sale?
Actually, 'format' is not a bad term for what it was intended to do. Format puts the initial information on a disk defining inodes, directory structure, freeblock bitmaps, etc etc - in other words, giving the disk structure so that it is useable. The bad part of the term is that it doesn't imply the loss of data...
Wasn't there a biography of Bill Gates once upon a time that had a section on why he is doing what he is doing? Wasn't the hypothesis that he was "the nerd" in school and wanted to get revenge on all of those who picked on him?
Personally I like to be going about 10MPH Faster to give myself some leeway. I can't stand the morons in their minivans (note that not all minivan drivers are morons; just that the minivan is the vehicle of choice for the average moron) who poke along down the acceleration ramp and merge into 75MPH traffic at 50MPH. And then they wonder why I wave to them as I'm passing.
The main street in my town is timed this way. The city was even nice enough to publish the speed that you have to be travelling at to hit all of the lights green. As long as the first light is hit green and the speed is 37.5MPH, theoretically all of the lights will be hit green. The irony of this is that most of the main street is marked 35MPH and there is a section going through downtown that is marked 30MPH. I've always wanted to try at 75MPH to see if I can get through all of the lights green.
It seems that after 9 or 10pm the lights stop working with each other and go on their own schedule to advoid the really long delays that the timing system can introduce. I like that feature.
As far as "waves" of traffic go - It's kind of fun to watch a bunch of cars stopped at the light finally get to go through - then a dead space for about 2 minutes - and then halfway through the next wave the light goes red. hehe.
Hmmm.... Things that would excite me if I were a car:
1. Unleaded 93 octane fuel
2. Mobil One synthetic 10w30 and a good oil filter 3. Goodyear racing Eagles 4. A hand applied wax job. 5. A cute redhead as my owner and primary driver.
If cars moving freely along the freeway equals a fluid, and cars stuck in a jam on 42nd street equals a solid - just heat the cars up to get them to change state to a fluid? Any idea how much energy we would have to put in to get this to work?
Actually I was hoping that North Carolina would make it a capital offense. They have a choice - Leathal Injection (BOOOO!) or the Gas Chamber (Better of the two). Publisize and televise please!
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If you are really serious about being open with it then I would consider asking for the funding to file the patent. Keep the patent for yourself and just publish it on the web with terms such as Creative Commons.
The funding could come from private donations. A dollar here, a dollar there type of thing. Post a donation link to somewhere like Slashdot with a suitable teaser (or teasers if you want to attract a larger audience - multiple teasers targeting different demographics will only increase the size of the donation pool).
A few possible teasers for Slashdot...for the young crowd you could talk about how your invention would enable every individual to pour hot grits down Natalie's front. The middle age may enjoy something about the .cx domain. The old ones (see my Slashdot ID number) would be into something nostalgic - old hardware like Z80s for instance.
Another good things about the public fundraising - Documentation to help with any prior art disputes...
What will this deposition get you? What if PJ is really "Not who she seems to be?" What will it matter? What are you afraid of? Why are you trying to silence this one voice?
Could it be that you are afraid because the analysis and opinion of PJ's writings have "held water" over time? Are you tired of being put in a bad light because of the tactics you (I mean you and your lawyers) employ? Do you think that your image will improve without this one voice? What about all of the trade articles talking about your lawsuits against your customers? Is harrasment the best that you can do after all this time?
Many people have come to the conclusion that PJ is one person. Exposing this person probably will not have a positive impact on your image - even if it was someone linked to IBM. The ideas expressed on Groklaw are out there - you can't kill an idea! The simple fact that these ideas have held true over time irrespective of the voice that spoke them guarentees their immortality.
Silencing one voice will cause 1000 others to shout out. Open Source is about distributed development of software, hardware, community, public knowledge, and the human race. Remeber Ransom Love's warning: 'Don't do it,' Love says he told McBride. `You don't want to take on the entire Linux community.'
Who are you going to silence next?
Email this page to a friend
...joke isn't funny anymore.
The first day that I had my UltraSPARC 10 at work I tried to use CDE... I hated it. I found that it was simple and quick but it wasn't very intuitive. So, off to FVWM.org I went. And I've been happy ever since. I've played with Gnome and KDE on various platforms - they are definietly pretty but they take up way too many resources.
I can provide everything... but I can't get onto the site to contact the person who is taking applications for volunteers.
chris@nukequarters.com
It is all relative. I see three major categories of online-relations:
1. Two unattached people meet online.
2. Two people meet, one or both of them is in a dead relationship and are currently getting out.
3. Two people meet, and one or both of them are in a serious real-life relationship that they don't intend to leave.
My Morals:
One and two do not constitue adultery as long as there is commitment. If there isn't a commitment, then it's no different than a one night stand. Three is just out and out adultery.
The One Thing that bugs me about this article is that it automatically equates romance with sex. Romance does not mean an automatic roll in the hay. It is these people that can not see the difference between the two (hugging, touching and kissing vs. sex) that I think should not be in relationships - everyone should learn this before getting into a relationship.... yes, there is a direct link, romance should lead to sex, sex should lead to romance, starting a vicious circle BUT both parties should consent to every step along the way.
An anonymous post from somewhere deep in Russia to comp.so.windows contained a 250MB "patch" to the Windows source code. Improvements include the ability to compile with gcc 2.96, 65K bug fixes, thousands of speedups, and a cute Pengiun silhouette in the corner of the Windows boot up screen. Sources close to Microsoft said that their technicians issued a 'patch -p1', a several hours later went gold with the resulting product. "This is exactly what service pack 2 for Windows ME was going to look like, these folks just saved us the trouble of writing it;" an anonymous marketer at Microsoft said. "Users can expect to see the upgrade in stores in the next month, for a nominal charge of $450."
Does it not strike anyone else that they are comparing "Lower End, Value (tm)" processors to current top of the line stuff? Of course the top of the line stuff is going to be twice as fast - they are running at 1.5 - 2.0 times the speed!
Why not instead benchmark these inexpensive processors with various video cards like the ATI Radeon, S3 Savage and a GeForce2? Then for reference on the graphs, throw in the Athlon and PIII score for comparison. This would produce a useful graph - something that would allow me to decide if a "Value" system is what I should purchase next. This would also show where the framerate bottleneck is - the CPU or the GPU.
The second complaint I have is their choice of motherboard for the PIII/Celeron. Why not choose something like the Gigabyte GA-6VXE+. This motherboard features (as all Apollo Pro motherboards do, I suspect) an independent FSB - The front side bus of the processor is independent of the memory bus. My Celeron 600E has a 66MHz FSB, the memory bus is 133MHz. Wouldn't this reduce bus contention between the AGP card and the processor, resulting in better performance?
Shame on sharkyextreme for posting such poor benchmarking.
I have owned Number Nine cards with the original S3 chipsets (before the VirGE disasters). I moved from a Cirrus Logic 5429 VESA to the Number Nine FX Motion 531 - 2MB DRAM with a S3 868 chipset; I thought I was in heaven. Next I bought a Number Nine GXE 64 Pro with a S3 964, 220MHz TI RAMDAC, and 4MB VRAM - was drooling (...When I'm 64!). My final Number Nine card was the Number Nine FX Motion 771 that had 2MB VRAM and an S3 968 chipset. I bought it thinking that I could toss 2MB more VRAM on it, but it didn't have sockets. It was still a pretty card. All of these Number Nine cards worked beautifully with X - they still do.
Then S3 started designing things like the VirGE. Number Nine was never the same after that. I wish I had experience with the Number Nine TTR series with their own graphics engines.... Anyone have one or two for sale?
Actually, 'format' is not a bad term for what it was intended to do. Format puts the initial information on a disk defining inodes, directory structure, freeblock bitmaps, etc etc - in other words, giving the disk structure so that it is useable. The bad part of the term is that it doesn't imply the loss of data...
Wasn't there a biography of Bill Gates once upon a time that had a section on why he is doing what he is doing? Wasn't the hypothesis that he was "the nerd" in school and wanted to get revenge on all of those who picked on him?
Y2K is at our feet
A world apocolypse that we reap
As I stand to watch the show
A bottle of brandy - Down It Goes!
Amen.
Personally I like to be going about 10MPH Faster to give myself some leeway. I can't stand the morons in their minivans (note that not all minivan drivers are morons; just that the minivan is the vehicle of choice for the average moron) who poke along down the acceleration ramp and merge into 75MPH traffic at 50MPH. And then they wonder why I wave to them as I'm passing.
The main street in my town is timed this way. The city was even nice enough to publish the speed that you have to be travelling at to hit all of the lights green. As long as the first light is hit green and the speed is 37.5MPH, theoretically all of the lights will be hit green. The irony of this is that most of the main street is marked 35MPH and there is a section going through downtown that is marked 30MPH. I've always wanted to try at 75MPH to see if I can get through all of the lights green.
It seems that after 9 or 10pm the lights stop working with each other and go on their own schedule to advoid the really long delays that the timing system can introduce. I like that feature.
As far as "waves" of traffic go - It's kind of fun to watch a bunch of cars stopped at the light finally get to go through - then a dead space for about 2 minutes - and then halfway through the next wave the light goes red. hehe.
Hmmm.... Things that would excite me if I were a car:
1. Unleaded 93 octane fuel
2. Mobil One synthetic 10w30 and a good oil filter
3. Goodyear racing Eagles
4. A hand applied wax job.
5. A cute redhead as my owner and primary driver.
If cars moving freely along the freeway equals a fluid, and cars stuck in a jam on 42nd street equals a solid - just heat the cars up to get them to change state to a fluid? Any idea how much energy we would have to put in to get this to work?
Actually I was hoping that North Carolina would make it a capital offense. They have a choice - Leathal Injection (BOOOO!) or the Gas Chamber (Better of the two). Publisize and televise please!