I suggest keeping it on dead trees. Its a lot easier to bill and control intellectual property that way. I'd rather flip through a few pages of a 500 page book, than have to worry about web banners, people who don't contribute making you not able to continue the project, etc. I'd even place a preorder for a book - and give you 15 months to deliver it, for $40 or similar. Also, I'd rig it up with the publishers that they get a hefty chunk of bookstore profits but online preorders like mine are mostly yours.
Another nice thing would be including coupons for newer books and books on related topic in the book. I mean REAL coupons, at least $10 off. nolo press does this for their legal books, and I like it.
You may want to issue addendum pages over the net.
Not too useful for the lamers who won't contribute, but convenient enough for us dead-tree-owners to update our books with.
Of course, contributors to the stack should get free copies for their efforts, and also so they can comment on their own code.
A barter system with other book publishers is probably also in order.
p.s. I really wished you had come out with a 2.2 book.
Is an idea I have been trying to get support of. I have been calling it Open Patent Pool . Thie idea goes like this:
You come up with something neat but you don't think its really worth a patent. But you don't want someone else to patent it either.
1 - file the patent anyway, with rights designated to OPP (open patent pool). OPP funds collected from donations pay USPTO fees
2 - if and when patent issues, the public at large is allowed to use it, except for restricted entities found in abusive of the patent system by an OPP kangaroo court
3 - a greedy corporation files a patent application for something like freezing water to crack rocks, and the USPTO grants the patent.
4 - a procedure is started to find them in violation of the patent system. In a court of arbitration, they have an opportunity to defend themselves. They may either attempt to prove that their patent is innovative enough to warrant a patent, or they may assign it to OPP or another qualifying organization, or both
5 - If found in violation, that organization and its subsidiaries are prohibited from using the patent you have created, among many, many others. They are now at a competitive disadvantage.
6 - when the stupid company realizes they are totally screwed, they can get out of this trouble by contributing the patent in question to the OPP, and signing a legal contract to never do such a dumb thing again. Then they are absolved of sin and may enter heaven.
By the way, this process has been filed for patent consideration, and will be the first patent of the pool when it is granted. (I love self-referential logic)
Anyone who is interested in participating, please contact me.
This is so PATENTLY absurd, it might just be the push needed to reform the USPTO. Also, if the USPTO continues the way it has, I think that international patent treaties and WIPO will go down the drain. Maybe that wouldn;t be so bad, after all. Just imagine, what happens when China tells the US to go fuck itself over intellectual property.
First of all, lightening WILL effect these. The flash of lightening also occurs in the infrared. Luckily, just like in the visibile and radio spectrum, its only there for a fractionof a second and that FEC (error correction) should have no problem with it.
People seem to be saying that this will be useless because of fog. Well, this is intended for high-bandwidth, short range applications. This is for getting between two adjacent dorms on campus, and does not replace the microwave radio technology for longer distances. You can try to use it for longer distances, just hacking around, or on non-critical links for gnutella or whatever.
You might be able to hack together your own network. People have done this using laser-pointer parts but these things burn out as they are not designed for full duty-cycle. Would surplus CD drives work better? And there's still a drift problem, but if you were to make a 3 x 3 grid (or larger) of detectors you could detect and correct drift before losing connectivity. This requires the affordability of multiple detectors.
There was a home-brew laser network project in australia that was eventually abandonded because they couldn't overcome drift problems. I can't find the URL right now, I'll post it later.
It costs a lot of money to develop monterey, or AIX, or any operating system. By embracing Linux, they can lay all their pampered OS developers off.
Not to worry too much about them, though, because the demand for competent (and I would say that AIX/Monterey has some very competent programmers) is very high.
Damn, I am happy to finally see someone who seems to know what they are talking about deflate VoIP.
I was at CTExpo in LA in '99, trying out teh various vendors VOIP solutions. They had these quaint little phone booths where you could make a free call. Well, I called home and couldn't even recognize the voice of the person on the other end. Yes, the words go through, but all other communication was lost. And the lag was unbearable.
What's the point of all of this compression and stuff to send voice of ip, when there's already a hell of a lot of dark fiber in the ground, and more is being laid as we speak..and DWDM systems are improving how much bandwidth the fiber has. I tell you, its all in the switching. Some people don't want to pay for quality switches and would rather have their calls dirt cheap or free. Well that's fine if you're going to horse around. Personally, if I got a business call from someone and couldn't understand them because of the crappy quality of th VOIP connection, I'd think twice about doing business with them.
Ever used an ISDN phone? They sound great. Because this is digital telephony that works. We need to push ISDN or possibly DSL out to the home for telephony, not cram it over the Porn Pipe (internet).
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I suggest keeping it on dead trees. Its a lot easier to bill and control intellectual property that way. I'd rather flip through a few pages of a 500 page book, than have to worry about web banners, people who don't contribute making you not able to continue the project, etc. I'd even place a preorder for a book - and give you 15 months to deliver it, for $40 or similar. Also, I'd rig it up with the publishers that they get a hefty chunk of bookstore profits but online preorders like mine are mostly yours.
Another nice thing would be including coupons for newer books and books on related topic in the book. I mean REAL coupons, at least $10 off. nolo press does this for their legal books, and I like it.
You may want to issue addendum pages over the net.
Not too useful for the lamers who won't contribute, but convenient enough for us dead-tree-owners to update our books with.
Of course, contributors to the stack should get free copies for their efforts, and also so they can comment on their own code.
A barter system with other book publishers is probably also in order.
p.s. I really wished you had come out with a 2.2 book.
You come up with something neat but you don't think its really worth a patent. But you don't want someone else to patent it either.
By the way, this process has been filed for patent consideration, and will be the first patent of the pool when it is granted. (I love self-referential logic)
Anyone who is interested in participating, please contact me.
This is so PATENTLY absurd, it might just be the push needed to reform the USPTO. Also, if the USPTO continues the way it has, I think that international patent treaties and WIPO will go down the drain. Maybe that wouldn;t be so bad, after all. Just imagine, what happens when China tells the US to go fuck itself over intellectual property.
People seem to be saying that this will be useless because of fog. Well, this is intended for high-bandwidth, short range applications. This is for getting between two adjacent dorms on campus, and does not replace the microwave radio technology for longer distances. You can try to use it for longer distances, just hacking around, or on non-critical links for gnutella or whatever.
You might be able to hack together your own network. People have done this using laser-pointer parts but these things burn out as they are not designed for full duty-cycle. Would surplus CD drives work better? And there's still a drift problem, but if you were to make a 3 x 3 grid (or larger) of detectors you could detect and correct drift before losing connectivity. This requires the affordability of multiple detectors.
There was a home-brew laser network project in australia that was eventually abandonded because they couldn't overcome drift problems. I can't find the URL right now, I'll post it later.
It costs a lot of money to develop monterey, or AIX, or any operating system. By embracing Linux, they can lay all their pampered OS developers off. Not to worry too much about them, though, because the demand for competent (and I would say that AIX/Monterey has some very competent programmers) is very high.
I was at CTExpo in LA in '99, trying out teh various vendors VOIP solutions. They had these quaint little phone booths where you could make a free call. Well, I called home and couldn't even recognize the voice of the person on the other end. Yes, the words go through, but all other communication was lost. And the lag was unbearable.
What's the point of all of this compression and stuff to send voice of ip, when there's already a hell of a lot of dark fiber in the ground, and more is being laid as we speak..and DWDM systems are improving how much bandwidth the fiber has. I tell you, its all in the switching. Some people don't want to pay for quality switches and would rather have their calls dirt cheap or free. Well that's fine if you're going to horse around. Personally, if I got a business call from someone and couldn't understand them because of the crappy quality of th VOIP connection, I'd think twice about doing business with them.
Ever used an ISDN phone? They sound great. Because this is digital telephony that works. We need to push ISDN or possibly DSL out to the home for telephony, not cram it over the Porn Pipe (internet).