I suspect he has been talking about the paywall for so long as an attempt to give others enough time to build theirs own too. Any newspaper that competes with him would be silly not to have looked into just in case it works and he gave them enough time to build it. So if he turns his on and reports he is getting subscribers, then others may follow. If he hadn't given them time, they would be forced to survive while competing with everyone else who would be forced to provide free content until they built their own system and by then the real subscribe data would be out.
The way the US patent office works is that they check their data and any data that the submitter has provided. They aren't allowed to use search engines to find out if the thing had been done before since they would be leaking information out to the search engine provider. This means that the 1st software patent issued could have been for something very common if the patent office didn't have any reasonable documentation showing that it existed.
I think a solution to this problem (as it rolls into other countries) and the open source problem is a huge patent for "Processing information using a computer system" where everything anyone can think of is lumped in as a claim. Then the patent office will spend years knocking back every single claim and at the end of the process a patent may be issued with a few claims left but the patent office will then have lots of prior art on software patents. A good starting point would be to take The Art of Computer programming and add an useless extension to each algorithm in the books so as an example a claim could be done for "a method of sorting data about ice cream cones and other things by using a bubble sort"
The 4k and 16k came out at the same time and the 32k was a piggy back with pairs of the 16k chips. The next hack was using 64k chips and hooking up an extra chip to a gate on the PIO to bank swap out the ROM and swap in the RAM. There were other hacks to other PIO pins that would give OS 9 far more ram in the area of like 256k at the time but no process could deal with more than 64k at one time. There were also divers written for the 6829 which should have given up to 2 meg in theory but I never could find one of those chips even though there were drivers for OS floating around.
I would buy into the "may"... in some cases. I also expect there may be more than one phenomenon that is called ball lightning.
I used to live in a house that had plastic dome light shade in the room lights. After the light was turned off and they cooled down they would pop. That pop would create a Piezo generated electric field that would cause me to see a bright flash of light that wasn't there. It may have caused others to see ghosts. There have been reports of large amounts of geo-piezo activity in areas where ghosts, angels and aliens are often seen.
Or do what I did. Take charge of the office re-keying, get a good locksmith that knows how to do master key systems and add extra slots for employee's homes. I used to carry 2 keys for about 40 different locks but now I'm up to 3 until I can find a decent front door lock that can take a decent cylinder that I like. I like my protec keys. There is one locksmith in town who can make keys for my locks and they keys even come with serial numbers on them too. Getting keys cut isn't much more expensive than getting a generic key cut but the cylinders can be expensive. A big disadvantage I've found is that I can't put one of those cylinders on the cheap fire proof safes which seem to come with locks worse than a $3 bike lock.
Thats why yellow time need to be constant but the average driver has issues when you have a 2 sec delay on a 25 mph road and 4 sec delay on a road where you know the average car is doing 75.
That assume that the other side turns green after the yellow turns red. That isn't the case with modern lights and "short yellows" are a way to discourage people from running the intersection. Of course like any power, that has to be used with wisdom and most of the time it isn't.
I looked into using pulsars as GPS like signals. The current Navstar GPS system takes into account wobble caused by the Sun, Moon, Jupiter and Saturn and a minor correction. To use pulsars as clocks, you have to throw in their local gravity issues which will be on the order of 5 to 12 additional vectors. (thats 3d polar vectors just for more fun). I don't think enough is known about their local environment to make the statement that they are better than current atomic clocks. There have been experiments to map the surface of pulsars that have shown some features of their energy dissipation can be measured down to about 2 meters. Not bad for a signal that has a free space loss of something in the order of -450 db and still has to be filtered out by modern GPS receivers.
I go into the local Borders bookstore and compare the ratio of books on the shelf. According to that metric, Mix is more popular than C if they have The Art of Computer Programming in stock.
I've been trying to figure out how they came up with the CFL saves 80% nonsense. The best bulb I've found was 64% when it was new and I have some that are past their useful life and are less efficient than incandescent bulbs. I'm not even sure how to measure the lumens from a non-point source like a spiral CFL in an accurate way. It appears that most of the bulbs that have useful ratings use the point that is the brightest and then use that light level to guess at the total lumens which will overstate the total light output. I've been thinking a better way to compare modern lights would be to look at a number more like EIRP used in radios.
DNS for IPv6 will have to know a whole lot more about which address to dish out 1st than current versions of BIND and I'm not sure how long it will take to get a good handle on that problem.
I'm old school so I like dedicated hardware for my DNS servers. I run bsd jails that don't have anything but bind running. I used to run solaris servers that had init running named running off a read only scsi disk that was shared with another server. Init ran another program that would mount the file system read only, copy the zone files and then unmount the disk. There was another program that watched for a condition and then sent init signals. There were less than 20 files on the disk. That is what I want on a future name server. I can do that now on a Freebsd zone or a Solaris container as well (except I have to replace iniit with the cd rom boot one, why does it link to buggy xml libs?)
First consider map datums... Take an old city like New Orleans where there many attempts to survey it over its history. The early coordinates where based on some feature of the time such as a notable rock or tree. By the time the 1800s rolled around, they started using different base points but used things less likely to move over time. Now what happens when they mix? Here in Australia, the gold town of Bendigo was very well surveyed but the capitol had other ideas of where the origin of the co ordinate system was. The result is old maps of Bendigo are very accurate and precise but the maps of Melbourne are much worse with both precision and accuracy. It get odd when you know the church is 10,320.4312 meters north and 23.2332 of the town hall yet you only know the key point of the grid to +/-50m.
The second thing to consider is the size of the unit of measure. Chains and Rods were common older units but there are lots of different versions of both. Until the metric system was widespread, local units were used for lots of reasons. For example a mile of rail is not the same as a mile of the sleepers that the rail sits on however if you order 150 miles of sleepers, you will find that 150 miles of rail will go on it and the train will travel 150 statute miles on that rail. Rail bridge miles are also different but all work out when combined. If I remember right, there are over 23 different versions of "mile" used in the US since the early 1800s. The book "units" has more details.
The last thing to consider is "what is real north?" While we all know the earth is round, its just much easier to cope with mapping if you assume local areas are flat. You can see this in the US by looking at section line roads in rural Kansas where the north/south roads take steps to keep the grid clean.
You also can run into places where they used magnetic north until they figured out that was wrong or the natural drift happened. In the 1800s it was common to abandon a bad compass at the next port if it was in error and couldn't be corrected. These devices were often sold to local surveyors who then laid out towns incorrectly. I wonder of Melbourne had that problem.
I've been using UPSs for close to 3 decades and I'm not sure they have saved more more grief than they caused.
My latest attempt to get things working correctly involves a telco grade N+1 type system using 4 1KW (maybe they are 750w?) inverter modules form Eltek Valere that run off a -48V battery bank made up of 8 truck sized deep cycle floating cell batteries in two banks. Its a pain to check the fluid levels but it can cope with far worse situations than the sealed lead acid batteries. The battery bank is charged by a a pair of rectifiers also from Eltek Valere. The next goal for that is to hook up a KW or two of solar panels to the battery bank. The idea is to power some things directly off the -48V system as well.
The second system I run was intended to use a Selectronics PS1 and a charger/inverter but it had a habit of trying to feed the grid for a few milliseconds before it decided it couldn't and then shut down both sides of the load. Its now uses as a batter bank charger and a UPS for things that need protection but won't be a problem if they fail due to power outages. The PS1 is the cleanest battery charger I have ever seen but its a bit expensive for that role. I wouldn't have a problem using one of their units in cases where the power was very bad and I had a proper generator.
I also run small UPSs in the racks for things that should have ATS but don't. I stand by the statement that they have caused more harm than what they have helped. My old sun power supplies can take worse spikes than the 2RU UPS. I had an idiot electritian who kept tying phase 1 to phase 2 when my gear was on phase 3. Gee... every time I do this, it goes pop! I wonder why it doesn't work and try again just about the time the machines had rebooted. 240V 3 phase pumps 415V or more into odd phase out when you connect the other two. outch!
A word about Automatic transfer swtiches and dual power supplies. When they have smarts built into them they can get into the game where "opps, phase A is down, switch to phase B" followed by "Opps phase B is dropping fast but Phase A looks ok now". The power flapping ends up doing nasty things to the grid power factor and modern power meters will take that into consideration and may charge far more for the power. Around here normal power can be had from $.08/kwh but bad power factor power can cost $.50 a kwh.
I monitor my power with a Sentron PAC3200 which is a 3 phase, 4 inch digital volt meter with an ethernet jack. I get data every 30 seconds on volts, power, power factor, THD and other things it knows about and I plug that into rrdtool so I can look at the nice pictures after things break. If your only doing 10A, you can connect the thing directly and it will give you enough precision to tell which server power off even if they are nearly identical but if you take more than 10A you need current transformers which introduce more slop on the data. I put my PAC on the back end of my 3 UPS systems but I would like to get one for the front of the charges, the building as a whole and the computer room A/C systems.
You may have to replace every sensor and there are several hundred. Just replacing a modern dash could is a 3 hour job on an easy car. Throw in replacing all airbags, all the sensors, the ABS computer, the ABS sensors, the fuel level sensor, the radio and the 40 or so sensors in the engine compartment. I don't think you could do that for a couple of grand.
3 mb is much faster than 1mb. 100 mb is even faster. I have 3/3 at home and the 2/2 at work sucks. I have 17/17 to many peering points on my home connection.
Oh my connection is clipped after the 1st 60 seconds. Since the link is 1 gb in places which means some torrents complete before the connection is clipped.
There has long been rumors that they don't store each of your attachments but find ways to find out who else is storing them as well and then just keeping them all in one (backed-up?) place. Why would this be any different?
LORAN is still around today since its used as a clock to calibrate some old military gear. The fact that it is useful as a backup system when solar flares mess up GPS isn't a major point now that most LORAN gear has been removed, is not longer functional or the operator can't remember how to use it.
The FCC rules say you can't cause interference. They don't define that so if the guy had a real claim then the FCC rules would require the wifi thing to be shut down.
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The power is much cheaper in NZ.
When I was 16, it involved two minimum wage guys who were 16 and a device a bit bigger than a roto-tiller and a spool of cable.
I suspect he has been talking about the paywall for so long as an attempt to give others enough time to build theirs own too. Any newspaper that competes with him would be silly not to have looked into just in case it works and he gave them enough time to build it. So if he turns his on and reports he is getting subscribers, then others may follow. If he hadn't given them time, they would be forced to survive while competing with everyone else who would be forced to provide free content until they built their own system and by then the real subscribe data would be out.
The way the US patent office works is that they check their data and any data that the submitter has provided. They aren't allowed to use search engines to find out if the thing had been done before since they would be leaking information out to the search engine provider. This means that the 1st software patent issued could have been for something very common if the patent office didn't have any reasonable documentation showing that it existed.
I think a solution to this problem (as it rolls into other countries) and the open source problem is a huge patent for "Processing information using a computer system" where everything anyone can think of is lumped in as a claim. Then the patent office will spend years knocking back every single claim and at the end of the process a patent may be issued with a few claims left but the patent office will then have lots of prior art on software patents. A good starting point would be to take The Art of Computer programming and add an useless extension to each algorithm in the books so as an example a claim could be done for "a method of sorting data about ice cream cones and other things by using a bubble sort"
The 4k and 16k came out at the same time and the 32k was a piggy back with pairs of the 16k chips. The next hack was using 64k chips and hooking up an extra chip to a gate on the PIO to bank swap out the ROM and swap in the RAM. There were other hacks to other PIO pins that would give OS 9 far more ram in the area of like 256k at the time but no process could deal with more than 64k at one time. There were also divers written for the 6829 which should have given up to 2 meg in theory but I never could find one of those chips even though there were drivers for OS floating around.
The real hackers piggybacked 16 kbit chips and ran a wire to the memory/video controller.
I would buy into the "may"... in some cases. I also expect there may be more than one phenomenon that is called ball lightning.
I used to live in a house that had plastic dome light shade in the room lights. After the light was turned off and they cooled down they would pop. That pop would create a Piezo generated electric field that would cause me to see a bright flash of light that wasn't there. It may have caused others to see ghosts. There have been reports of large amounts of geo-piezo activity in areas where ghosts, angels and aliens are often seen.
Or do what I did. Take charge of the office re-keying, get a good locksmith that knows how to do master key systems and add extra slots for employee's homes. I used to carry 2 keys for about 40 different locks but now I'm up to 3 until I can find a decent front door lock that can take a decent cylinder that I like. I like my protec keys. There is one locksmith in town who can make keys for my locks and they keys even come with serial numbers on them too. Getting keys cut isn't much more expensive than getting a generic key cut but the cylinders can be expensive. A big disadvantage I've found is that I can't put one of those cylinders on the cheap fire proof safes which seem to come with locks worse than a $3 bike lock.
Some areas have been using blue lights to let other drivers know what is going on...
Thats why yellow time need to be constant but the average driver has issues when you have a 2 sec delay on a 25 mph road and 4 sec delay on a road where you know the average car is doing 75.
That assume that the other side turns green after the yellow turns red. That isn't the case with modern lights and "short yellows" are a way to discourage people from running the intersection. Of course like any power, that has to be used with wisdom and most of the time it isn't.
I looked into using pulsars as GPS like signals. The current Navstar GPS system takes into account wobble caused by the Sun, Moon, Jupiter and Saturn and a minor correction. To use pulsars as clocks, you have to throw in their local gravity issues which will be on the order of 5 to 12 additional vectors. (thats 3d polar vectors just for more fun). I don't think enough is known about their local environment to make the statement that they are better than current atomic clocks. There have been experiments to map the surface of pulsars that have shown some features of their energy dissipation can be measured down to about 2 meters. Not bad for a signal that has a free space loss of something in the order of -450 db and still has to be filtered out by modern GPS receivers.
I go into the local Borders bookstore and compare the ratio of books on the shelf. According to that metric, Mix is more popular than C if they have The Art of Computer Programming in stock.
I've been trying to figure out how they came up with the CFL saves 80% nonsense. The best bulb I've found was 64% when it was new and I have some that are past their useful life and are less efficient than incandescent bulbs. I'm not even sure how to measure the lumens from a non-point source like a spiral CFL in an accurate way. It appears that most of the bulbs that have useful ratings use the point that is the brightest and then use that light level to guess at the total lumens which will overstate the total light output. I've been thinking a better way to compare modern lights would be to look at a number more like EIRP used in radios.
DNS for IPv6 will have to know a whole lot more about which address to dish out 1st than current versions of BIND and I'm not sure how long it will take to get a good handle on that problem.
I'm old school so I like dedicated hardware for my DNS servers. I run bsd jails that don't have anything but bind running. I used to run solaris servers that had init running named running off a read only scsi disk that was shared with another server. Init ran another program that would mount the file system read only, copy the zone files and then unmount the disk. There was another program that watched for a condition and then sent init signals. There were less than 20 files on the disk. That is what I want on a future name server. I can do that now on a Freebsd zone or a Solaris container as well (except I have to replace iniit with the cd rom boot one, why does it link to buggy xml libs?)
First consider map datums... Take an old city like New Orleans where there many attempts to survey it over its history. The early coordinates where based on some feature of the time such as a notable rock or tree. By the time the 1800s rolled around, they started using different base points but used things less likely to move over time. Now what happens when they mix? Here in Australia, the gold town of Bendigo was very well surveyed but the capitol had other ideas of where the origin of the co ordinate system was. The result is old maps of Bendigo are very accurate and precise but the maps of Melbourne are much worse with both precision and accuracy. It get odd when you know the church is 10,320.4312 meters north and 23.2332 of the town hall yet you only know the key point of the grid to +/-50m.
The second thing to consider is the size of the unit of measure. Chains and Rods were common older units but there are lots of different versions of both. Until the metric system was widespread, local units were used for lots of reasons. For example a mile of rail is not the same as a mile of the sleepers that the rail sits on however if you order 150 miles of sleepers, you will find that 150 miles of rail will go on it and the train will travel 150 statute miles on that rail. Rail bridge miles are also different but all work out when combined. If I remember right, there are over 23 different versions of "mile" used in the US since the early 1800s. The book "units" has more details.
The last thing to consider is "what is real north?" While we all know the earth is round, its just much easier to cope with mapping if you assume local areas are flat. You can see this in the US by looking at section line roads in rural Kansas where the north/south roads take steps to keep the grid clean.
You also can run into places where they used magnetic north until they figured out that was wrong or the natural drift happened. In the 1800s it was common to abandon a bad compass at the next port if it was in error and couldn't be corrected. These devices were often sold to local surveyors who then laid out towns incorrectly. I wonder of Melbourne had that problem.
What are they rolling out in Norway? Is it some form of xPON or are they using switched ethernet (like I expect Google will be doing)?
I've been using UPSs for close to 3 decades and I'm not sure they have saved more more grief than they caused.
My latest attempt to get things working correctly involves a telco grade N+1 type system using 4 1KW (maybe they are 750w?) inverter modules form Eltek Valere that run off a -48V battery bank made up of 8 truck sized deep cycle floating cell batteries in two banks. Its a pain to check the fluid levels but it can cope with far worse situations than the sealed lead acid batteries. The battery bank is charged by a a pair of rectifiers also from Eltek Valere. The next goal for that is to hook up a KW or two of solar panels to the battery bank. The idea is to power some things directly off the -48V system as well.
The second system I run was intended to use a Selectronics PS1 and a charger/inverter but it had a habit of trying to feed the grid for a few milliseconds before it decided it couldn't and then shut down both sides of the load. Its now uses as a batter bank charger and a UPS for things that need protection but won't be a problem if they fail due to power outages. The PS1 is the cleanest battery charger I have ever seen but its a bit expensive for that role. I wouldn't have a problem using one of their units in cases where the power was very bad and I had a proper generator.
I also run small UPSs in the racks for things that should have ATS but don't. I stand by the statement that they have caused more harm than what they have helped. My old sun power supplies can take worse spikes than the 2RU UPS. I had an idiot electritian who kept tying phase 1 to phase 2 when my gear was on phase 3. Gee... every time I do this, it goes pop! I wonder why it doesn't work and try again just about the time the machines had rebooted. 240V 3 phase pumps 415V or more into odd phase out when you connect the other two. outch!
A word about Automatic transfer swtiches and dual power supplies. When they have smarts built into them they can get into the game where "opps, phase A is down, switch to phase B" followed by "Opps phase B is dropping fast but Phase A looks ok now". The power flapping ends up doing nasty things to the grid power factor and modern power meters will take that into consideration and may charge far more for the power. Around here normal power can be had from $.08/kwh but bad power factor power can cost $.50 a kwh.
I monitor my power with a Sentron PAC3200 which is a 3 phase, 4 inch digital volt meter with an ethernet jack. I get data every 30 seconds on volts, power, power factor, THD and other things it knows about and I plug that into rrdtool so I can look at the nice pictures after things break. If your only doing 10A, you can connect the thing directly and it will give you enough precision to tell which server power off even if they are nearly identical but if you take more than 10A you need current transformers which introduce more slop on the data. I put my PAC on the back end of my 3 UPS systems but I would like to get one for the front of the charges, the building as a whole and the computer room A/C systems.
Did I mention I hate UPSs?
You may have to replace every sensor and there are several hundred. Just replacing a modern dash could is a 3 hour job on an easy car. Throw in replacing all airbags, all the sensors, the ABS computer, the ABS sensors, the fuel level sensor, the radio and the 40 or so sensors in the engine compartment. I don't think you could do that for a couple of grand.
Um.. No!
3 mb is much faster than 1mb.
100 mb is even faster.
I have 3/3 at home and the 2/2 at work sucks.
I have 17/17 to many peering points on my home connection.
Oh my connection is clipped after the 1st 60 seconds. Since the link is 1 gb in places which means some torrents complete before the connection is clipped.
Monaco is fixed-width & good looking.
Um no... its not good looking.
I already block most new TLD in my DNS server by adding my own root zones for them. Too many of the recent TLDs are just way too full of scammers.
There has long been rumors that they don't store each of your attachments but find ways to find out who else is storing them as well and then just keeping them all in one (backed-up?) place. Why would this be any different?
LORAN is still around today since its used as a clock to calibrate some old military gear. The fact that it is useful as a backup system when solar flares mess up GPS isn't a major point now that most LORAN gear has been removed, is not longer functional or the operator can't remember how to use it.
The FCC rules say you can't cause interference. They don't define that so if the guy had a real claim then the FCC rules would require the wifi thing to be shut down.