Power 7 is up to 5.2 GHz now in 4 core chips and you can put 6 of them in a tightly coupled system. That would make a very nice x-server. It seems to me that Apple seems to have far more bugs now that they stopped supporting the PPC platform. I'm guessing they used to find lots of bugs that they aren't seeing now.
The last wholesale price of the lasers ran from about $2.50 to $1,400.00 depending on which color you needed. With plans like this, who gets the cheap lasers?
There was a fidonet email push thing as well that if it was ever used over a ham network would be the prior art needed to kill this patent dead. I'm not sure if the uucp email thing would count but it looked like it was "always on", it just queued messages and not pack streams.
He talked about the style of parsing that is needed for XML. It turns out that it digresses into one of two worse case conditions, one uses infinite memory, the other infinite time. He still used something like it for TeX because it was interactive and could fail gracefully. Its one of the reason TeX has hard memory limits.
The impressive bit will be TeX and METAFONT have been ported directly to GPU code so it can render in real terms of hundreds of thousands of pages per second.
Someone is using a 2.4 ghz video sender. It wipes out all the the 2.4 Ghz band. Get your own sender system and figure out what they like to watch. You may consider sending your own content as well.
One of the 3 proposed systems I know about is exactly like Versions FiOS system that is delivering up to 35 mb. The only reason they are saying 100 mb here is that they aren't planning for as many cable TV channels (which is another mistake). Also that is only 100 mb down, not both ways. None of the proposals are FTTP, they are just FTTN where the node is a passive splitter. The result is your sharing the link all the way back and the means you may have to upgrade everyone if you want to push the the speed of just one customer. Its why PON rollouts are being reduced in the rest of the world where people are asking for gig speeds or they run a hybrid system of PON for the average customers but have enough spare fibers to give higher speeds when they need to. I'm not aware of anyone offering bidirectional gigabit speeds that is using any sort of PON.
Except that in housing areas full of California millionaires only gets about 80% to 85% coverage in the US. The figures for the NBN in Australia are just wrong.
Some times things are secret for very stupid reasons. If you look back to the early space suits, you will see the stated reasons was to help heat the astronaut in the cold vacuum of space even though basic physics says they will quickly over heat as they are generating heat and in a very well insulated environment. A whole slew of related things were considered top secret because the Russians hadn't started using Pelter effect cooling. The odd thing is that the reason the Russians didn't use the Peltier devices is they had decided compressors worked better and many parts of the US space suit remained top secret. Years later the next generation space suits would carry on the secret status because while the Gemini units had a secret charging connector (to not give away the power requirements of the suit), that was copied to Apollo and then to the Shuttle suits. So half a century after some engineer thought "this might be secret because the Russians hadn't figured it out", there will still be documents classified as secret even though the history of the stuff has been widely published.
A better story is told by Dr Richard Feynman about getting some of the most secret documents declassified from Los Alamos where they sat in a vault for decades and no one had ever changed the combination on the master safe that held the most secret of secret details of the bomb project.
Now they just run one fiber to a cabinet and use a prism to split that signal up to about 32 ways and put everyone on a digital party line. FiOS has found that you can't off 100 mb on the 622 (or even the 1.2 gig) PON and provide TV at the same time. Cable TV take up in Australia is far lower so there is a chance your 100 mb won't have to fight with the closer data streams. And before someone says they use one color for TV and on for Internet, keep in mind that the Pay per view and preloading movies is done on the data color (since the TV one is full) and its feed from a local source so your preloading your neighbors set top box with the latest hollywood flops is cutting into that bandwidth that you are paying for.
I don't agree on fiber being future proof. The stuff I put in the ground in the early 1980s is useless as was the metro fiber I was involved with in 1992. The local telco has already replaced their fiber once because the old stuff just didn't work with newer equipment.
There are several cables but most won't talk about having a billion dollar investment that is just laying on the beach. Southern Cross was one of the first to talk about their cable publicly.
I got an email about someone wanting to know if a dos program I wrote in about 1982 would work on newer hardware because it seemed "slow". It took it a few seconds to do its thing in the dos window and I pointed out that when it was new, it took all night.
There was some agreement with the baby bells having some access to Bell Labs but I'm not sure what happened to that as Bells merged and renamed themselves AT&T.
Because they have thousands of patents, rejected patents and prior art that cover all parts of this patent. The predecessor of the AT&T Pixel machine was making use of some of those techniques and that was at least 3 years before this patent. I'm guessing the developers of some of the radar gear in the AWACS might also have prior art. I know of one person who claimed to have prior art and since he has related patents I suspect he might be right. I've helped break about 20 patents so far but I'm not sure I want to break this one.
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Atari was using a DB9 for joysticks when RS232 was still using DB25.
Too bad go can't cope with real money. Has anything since Cobol?
Power 7 is up to 5.2 GHz now in 4 core chips and you can put 6 of them in a tightly coupled system.
That would make a very nice x-server. It seems to me that Apple seems to have far more bugs now that they stopped supporting the PPC platform. I'm guessing they used to find lots of bugs that they aren't seeing now.
In many parts of the world, 1 watt = $1 per year if left on 24x7.
The last wholesale price of the lasers ran from about $2.50 to $1,400.00 depending on which color you needed. With plans like this, who gets the cheap lasers?
The pilot of Babylon 5 was rendered on Amigas.
There was a fidonet email push thing as well that if it was ever used over a ham network would be the prior art needed to kill this patent dead. I'm not sure if the uucp email thing would count but it looked like it was "always on", it just queued messages and not pack streams.
What do you expect them to typeset the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with?
He talked about the style of parsing that is needed for XML. It turns out that it digresses into one of two worse case conditions, one uses infinite memory, the other infinite time.
He still used something like it for TeX because it was interactive and could fail gracefully. Its one of the reason TeX has hard memory limits.
The impressive bit will be TeX and METAFONT have been ported directly to GPU code so it can render in real terms of hundreds of thousands of pages per second.
There is a proof in one of his articles about just how hard it is for a machine to parse xml and that article predates html by years.
Someone is using a 2.4 ghz video sender. It wipes out all the the 2.4 Ghz band. Get your own sender system and figure out what they like to watch. You may consider sending your own content as well.
One of the 3 proposed systems I know about is exactly like Versions FiOS system that is delivering up to 35 mb. The only reason they are saying 100 mb here is that they aren't planning for as many cable TV channels (which is another mistake). Also that is only 100 mb down, not both ways. None of the proposals are FTTP, they are just FTTN where the node is a passive splitter. The result is your sharing the link all the way back and the means you may have to upgrade everyone if you want to push the the speed of just one customer. Its why PON rollouts are being reduced in the rest of the world where people are asking for gig speeds or they run a hybrid system of PON for the average customers but have enough spare fibers to give higher speeds when they need to. I'm not aware of anyone offering bidirectional gigabit speeds that is using any sort of PON.
Except that in housing areas full of California millionaires only gets about 80% to 85% coverage in the US. The figures for the NBN in Australia are just wrong.
So no real external storage with eSATA and will the thing cope with over heating better or worse than the current line?
Some times things are secret for very stupid reasons. If you look back to the early space suits, you will see the stated reasons was to help heat the astronaut in the cold vacuum of space even though basic physics says they will quickly over heat as they are generating heat and in a very well insulated environment. A whole slew of related things were considered top secret because the Russians hadn't started using Pelter effect cooling. The odd thing is that the reason the Russians didn't use the Peltier devices is they had decided compressors worked better and many parts of the US space suit remained top secret. Years later the next generation space suits would carry on the secret status because while the Gemini units had a secret charging connector (to not give away the power requirements of the suit), that was copied to Apollo and then to the Shuttle suits. So half a century after some engineer thought "this might be secret because the Russians hadn't figured it out", there will still be documents classified as secret even though the history of the stuff has been widely published.
A better story is told by Dr Richard Feynman about getting some of the most secret documents declassified from Los Alamos where they sat in a vault for decades and no one had ever changed the combination on the master safe that held the most secret of secret details of the bomb project.
Now they just run one fiber to a cabinet and use a prism to split that signal up to about 32 ways and put everyone on a digital party line. FiOS has found that you can't off 100 mb on the 622 (or even the 1.2 gig) PON and provide TV at the same time. Cable TV take up in Australia is far lower so there is a chance your 100 mb won't have to fight with the closer data streams. And before someone says they use one color for TV and on for Internet, keep in mind that the Pay per view and preloading movies is done on the data color (since the TV one is full) and its feed from a local source so your preloading your neighbors set top box with the latest hollywood flops is cutting into that bandwidth that you are paying for.
I don't agree on fiber being future proof. The stuff I put in the ground in the early 1980s is useless as was the metro fiber I was involved with in 1992. The local telco has already replaced their fiber once because the old stuff just didn't work with newer equipment.
There are several cables but most won't talk about having a billion dollar investment that is just laying on the beach. Southern Cross was one of the first to talk about their cable publicly.
I got an email about someone wanting to know if a dos program I wrote in about 1982 would work on newer hardware because it seemed "slow". It took it a few seconds to do its thing in the dos window and I pointed out that when it was new, it took all night.
There was some agreement with the baby bells having some access to Bell Labs but I'm not sure what happened to that as Bells merged and renamed themselves AT&T.
Because they have thousands of patents, rejected patents and prior art that cover all parts of this patent. The predecessor of the AT&T Pixel machine was making use of some of those techniques and that was at least 3 years before this patent. I'm guessing the developers of some of the radar gear in the AWACS might also have prior art. I know of one person who claimed to have prior art and since he has related patents I suspect he might be right. I've helped break about 20 patents so far but I'm not sure I want to break this one.
Which story in Genenis? There are two different stories in the 1st two chapters.
The real question is "Does the current AT&T have access to the old Bell Labs IP?" in which case this patent it dead if enough research is done.
There was a TeX add on for Mosaic but it was very slow so ML won out and got hacked into the mess we have now.