Those where the days. I could call up the vendor and get info as well. I even got the source code for VMS from Digital. Odd thing it was on microfiche.
The 6809 was 8 bit but could cope with 16 bits operations very well. The 8086 was 16 bits but was more comfortable dealing with 8 bits at a time. Processor bit size is marketing and has been for a long time.
I've been using 64 bit machines since they started to be practical for data centers. I don't see a use of them in most applications. What i see is needed is processor that can quickly cope with a 40 to 48 bit address space as well as 32 bit ints, double precission numbers, and very long word data sets at least 1024 bits if not 32kbit words at a time.
16 would be faster if it was big enough but since its not large enough for address calculations, its slower over all. the 32->64bit translation doen't have the same advanatges as the 16->32 migration did so your point isn't valid.
Pepsi knows how to play the advertising Game. They are very good at it.
Pepsi has one of the largest advertising budgets out there. When they talk, radio and tv stations listen. If Pepsi calls up your local channel 5 news station and says "we don't like the negitive spin you put on that RIAA story", the tv station will not do it again ever because they don't want Pepsi to forget to advertise on their TV station. A quick searh of Pepsi and its closely replated compaines shows it spent over a billion dollars last year advertising. The RIAA members sales of music were about $12b.
It will be interesting to see how the TV news covers RIAA issues now that Pepsi's ads implys its not completely evil to download songs.
If the game console copiers are any indication of how a HK business will react I see this happening: 1) CD_WOW says "Ok, Well add 2 pounds to the cost" 2) CD_WOW registers a new company name 3) people in the UK find out about the new lower cost option 4) repeat
Modern Payola is done by concert promters as well. A typical large concert will only sell less than 1/2 the tickets and the rest are freebees given to who knows who. Ever see the concert riders? The ads for the concerts must continue even after its sold out. The reason for that is the concert promotion is a key way to pay the radio stations to play the bands songs. Ever wonder why the radio decides to play a bunch of lame songs when a lame band is going to be in town? Its because those ads are costing like 10x as much as a normal ad. I also wonder how many 3 minute ads for songs are played as well.
I wonder what would happen if 1) running ads trying to sell tickets to sold out concert was prosecuted and 2) all ads on radio must be at the same rate.
When LEDs 1st got cheap one of the major car compaines sold a sports car with a an overhead pannel with lots of red LEDs to tell you that everything was OK. Does anyone know what that car was?
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Ok, compare Lapland to Montana. They both have about the same population density and Montana is just one of several of the states with very low population and its population is very spread out. Montana had decent mobile phone coverage over a decade ago but it did require a big bag phone but it worked because you can crank up the power of an AMPS system and it extends the range. If the choice was GSM or nothing, there still wouldn't be coverage there. You just can't afford to cover that much area where there aren't too many customers. From what I've read, Lapland doesn't have very good coverage even now. GSM has its place but its not a univerally better solution.
Distributing others copyrighted works is illegal. No, the RIAA and friends do it all the time and its how their members make money.
What is true is: Distributing others copyrighted works may be illegal.
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According to the CIA, Finland is about the size of Montana and has 5.5 times the population. I'm guessing that means it would have 5.5 times the population density as well. US cities are the least population dense cities in the world. Even Australia and New Zealand's cities are more dense than most cities in the US. And with GSM's 25km limit, it would be too ineffective to try to cover the mid-west states let alone the north western states. In thouse areas 3 Watt AMPS (analog) phones work much better than anything else thats out there.
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Better and smarter routing? I don't see how. All I see is the routers need to hold far more info than they already do which will slow them down. Most routers need to know very little about where packets next hop is and you could treat the world as 16 million/24 and make the decisions of which next hop at L2 cache speeds if you used 8mb of content addresable memory (like used for L2 cache). I don't see how buding a system where you can't do that kind of lookup is going to be faster.
What would it take to start a Class Action against SCO in Oz?
Aussies don't seem to like class action suits. I guess it goes aginst the grain and makes them feel like Americans who sue everyone. Of course only about one in 17 Aussies have been involved in a civil tribunal (small claims court) or court case making them about as sue happy as Californians.
There are many situations where class action suits here would help bring some of the large compaines into line but it never seems to happen.
In most mid west towns there is no need to parallel park at all. In the town where I got my drivers license, the only spots marked for parallel parking where at the school (where the they taught drivers -ed) and next to the police station where they did the tests.
Ok so they could afford it, but that doesn't mean they want to. They have 90 people working for them with a budget of about $4.5mil/yr. I've taken bigger clue sticks to much larger companies. The MED only has 700 people working for them. The MED's intent is clear and letting the patent office allow stupid patents is aginst their Statement of Intent.
If the complaint is backed by an international group whos finances can not be known, then its going to be a very big risk should they lose. The result is to force them to decide if what they are doing is right or just maintaining the status quo.
At some point some country must stand up aginst stupid patents. If we have a way to force NZ to do the sane thing, then why not?
Of course this all assumes they allow the patent in the 1st place and they might be clued in enough to reject it.
Does the Kiwi law allow for private prosecution aginst the New Zealand government? What would happen if a private prosecution aginst the patent office was clearly going to happen if they allow this patent to proceed seeing that it clearly isn't a new idea. I expect they will look at the issue much differently if they have to figure out where their budget is going to go. The Kiwi govt is small enough that they could not afford a law suit brought on by people from other countries and I'm guessing they would clearly change their tune. Of course they should punish Microsoft for outright lies in patent applications.
How about how many people this effects? I'm for very harsh penalties for crimes aginst lots of people. I think this is also a way to get the conecpt of small crimes aginst lots of people concept into the sentencing guide and maybe in time, these changes will be considered for stock market crimes.
Crime punishment should be an inverse log function of the damage. Top punishment is death (in the US) and if you say killing more than 10 people gets you death and killing >2 gets you life, and the most minor crime gets your a $50 fine, there is a puninshment curve that fits that that also will make sense to the general public.
The input to the function is the sum of how_many_victims*damage and that lets you figure how far along the punishment curve to go. This way I do see people getting life for minior crimes aginst hundreds of millions of people as well as more sane sentencing for minor crimes aginst one or no people.
Even China cannot justify the expense of a maglev train from Bejing to Shanghai. But they can do it now because no one has done it yet. In ten years that argument may not work. If China does it now, they become the world leaders in Maglev. If they don't do it now, they keep playing catch up as they have with most other things in the past 50 years.
How did they get all that stuff in Hutchinson? I know there used to be a Navy base there in the middle of Kansas but I didn't even know they had a museum. Let alone one worth visiting. Of course the Clyde Cessna has his museum (which has a pinting of an early Cessan plane) in Kingman Ks.
Its like the old "Its September again" on usenet. I'm guessing that as soon as classes start up again and many more students get back with their new MP3 players, the games will start again.
I've seen a F15 go up at an AFB (not a air show where its much less impressive). I've seen most of the Sat V go up too from Coco beach or the three mile observation point. They where much more impressive. The F15 at 4 minutes is at 104,000 ft and out of fuel but the Saturn V would put the 2nd stage above 40 miles up in less than three minutes while being downrange 78 miles. Apollo 17 was launched at night and turned part of the sky blue. It was quite impressive.
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Since the 1st story was posted, did anyone try to contact the Kiwi Patent office about this issue? If so can you tell us what happened?
Those where the days. I could call up the vendor and get info as well. I even got the source code for VMS from Digital. Odd thing it was on microfiche.
You have more crud to deal with in the register stack with 64 bits than 32 bits. That makes context swaps slower.
The 6809 was 8 bit but could cope with 16 bits operations very well. The 8086 was 16 bits but was more comfortable dealing with 8 bits at a time.
Processor bit size is marketing and has been for a long time.
I've been using 64 bit machines since they started to be practical for data centers. I don't see a use of them in most applications. What i see is needed is processor that can quickly cope with a 40 to 48 bit address space as well as 32 bit ints, double precission numbers, and very long word data sets at least 1024 bits if not 32kbit words at a time.
16 would be faster if it was big enough but since its not large enough for address calculations, its slower over all. the 32->64bit translation doen't have the same advanatges as the 16->32 migration did so your point isn't valid.
Pepsi knows how to play the advertising Game. They are very good at it.
Pepsi has one of the largest advertising budgets out there. When they talk, radio and tv stations listen. If Pepsi calls up your local channel 5 news station and says "we don't like the negitive spin you put on that RIAA story", the tv station will not do it again ever because they don't want Pepsi to forget to advertise on their TV station. A quick searh of Pepsi and its closely replated compaines shows it spent over a billion dollars last year advertising. The RIAA members sales of music were about $12b.
It will be interesting to see how the TV news covers RIAA issues now that Pepsi's ads implys its not completely evil to download songs.
The sony active noise reduction headphones I got in Tokyo two years ago has an ambient sound button.
No, the '86 BMW is about a decade too late. The car I was thinking about was before '78.
If the game console copiers are any indication of how a HK business will react I see this happening:
1) CD_WOW says "Ok, Well add 2 pounds to the cost"
2) CD_WOW registers a new company name
3) people in the UK find out about the new lower cost option
4) repeat
Modern Payola is done by concert promters as well. A typical large concert will only sell less than 1/2 the tickets and the rest are freebees given to who knows who. Ever see the concert riders? The ads for the concerts must continue even after its sold out. The reason for that is the concert promotion is a key way to pay the radio stations to play the bands songs. Ever wonder why the radio decides to play a bunch of lame songs when a lame band is going to be in town? Its because those ads are costing like 10x as much as a normal ad. I also wonder how many 3 minute ads for songs are played as well.
I wonder what would happen if 1) running ads trying to sell tickets to sold out concert was prosecuted and 2) all ads on radio must be at the same rate.
When LEDs 1st got cheap one of the major car compaines sold a sports car with a an overhead pannel with lots of red LEDs to tell you that everything was OK. Does anyone know what that car was?
Ok, compare Lapland to Montana. They both have about the same population density and Montana is just one of several of the states with very low population and its population is very spread out. Montana had decent mobile phone coverage over a decade ago but it did require a big bag phone but it worked because you can crank up the power of an AMPS system and it extends the range. If the choice was GSM or nothing, there still wouldn't be coverage there. You just can't afford to cover that much area where there aren't too many customers. From what I've read, Lapland doesn't have very good coverage even now. GSM has its place but its not a univerally better solution.
Distributing others copyrighted works is illegal.
No, the RIAA and friends do it all the time and its how their members make money.
What is true is:
Distributing others copyrighted works may be illegal.
According to the CIA, Finland is about the size of Montana and has 5.5 times the population. I'm guessing that means it would have 5.5 times the population density as well. US cities are the least population dense cities in the world. Even Australia and New Zealand's cities are more dense than most cities in the US. And with GSM's 25km limit, it would be too ineffective to try to cover the mid-west states let alone the north western states. In thouse areas 3 Watt AMPS (analog) phones work much better than anything else thats out there.
Better and smarter routing? I don't see how. All I see is the routers need to hold far more info than they already do which will slow them down. Most routers need to know very little about where packets next hop is and you could treat the world as 16 million /24 and make the decisions of which next hop at L2 cache speeds if you used 8mb of content addresable memory (like used for L2 cache). I don't see how buding a system where you can't do that kind of lookup is going to be faster.
What would it take to start a Class Action against SCO in Oz?
Aussies don't seem to like class action suits. I guess it goes aginst the grain and makes them feel like Americans who sue everyone. Of course only about one in 17 Aussies have been involved in a civil tribunal (small claims court) or court case making them about as sue happy as Californians.
There are many situations where class action suits here would help bring some of the large compaines into line but it never seems to happen.
In most mid west towns there is no need to parallel park at all. In the town where I got my drivers license, the only spots marked for parallel parking where at the school (where the they taught drivers -ed) and next to the police station where they did the tests.
Ok so they could afford it, but that doesn't mean they want to. They have 90 people working for them with a budget of about $4.5mil/yr. I've taken bigger clue sticks to much larger companies. The MED only has 700 people working for them. The MED's intent is clear and letting the patent office allow stupid patents is aginst their Statement of Intent.
If the complaint is backed by an international group whos finances can not be known, then its going to be a very big risk should they lose. The result is to force them to decide if what they are doing is right or just maintaining the status quo.
At some point some country must stand up aginst stupid patents. If we have a way to force NZ to do the sane thing, then why not?
Of course this all assumes they allow the patent in the 1st place and they might be clued in enough to reject it.
Does the Kiwi law allow for private prosecution aginst the New Zealand government? What would happen if a private prosecution aginst the patent office was clearly going to happen if they allow this patent to proceed seeing that it clearly isn't a new idea. I expect they will look at the issue much differently if they have to figure out where their budget is going to go. The Kiwi govt is small enough that they could not afford a law suit brought on by people from other countries and I'm guessing they would clearly change their tune. Of course they should punish Microsoft for outright lies in patent applications.
I've got a sweet little patch for sendmail that looks for a line starting TVqQAAMAAAAE and simply drops the connection. No problem with viruses here.
How about how many people this effects? I'm for very harsh penalties for crimes aginst lots of people. I think this is also a way to get the conecpt of small crimes aginst lots of people concept into the sentencing guide and maybe in time, these changes will be considered for stock market crimes.
Crime punishment should be an inverse log function of the damage. Top punishment is death (in the US) and if you say killing more than 10 people gets you death and killing >2 gets you life, and the most minor crime gets your a $50 fine, there is a puninshment curve that fits that that also will make sense to the general public.
The input to the function is the sum of how_many_victims*damage and that lets you figure how far along the punishment curve to go. This way I do see people getting life for minior crimes aginst hundreds of millions of people as well as more sane sentencing for minor crimes aginst one or no people.
Even China cannot justify the expense of a maglev train from Bejing to Shanghai.
But they can do it now because no one has done it yet. In ten years that argument may not work. If China does it now, they become the world leaders in Maglev. If they don't do it now, they keep playing catch up as they have with most other things in the past 50 years.
How did they get all that stuff in Hutchinson? I know there used to be a Navy base there in the middle of Kansas but I didn't even know they had a museum. Let alone one worth visiting. Of course the Clyde Cessna has his museum (which has a pinting of an early Cessan plane) in Kingman Ks.
Its like the old "Its September again" on usenet. I'm guessing that as soon as classes start up again and many more students get back with their new MP3 players, the games will start again.
I've seen a F15 go up at an AFB (not a air show where its much less impressive). I've seen most of the Sat V go up too from Coco beach or the three mile observation point. They where much more impressive. The F15 at 4 minutes is at 104,000 ft and out of fuel but the Saturn V would put the 2nd stage above 40 miles up in less than three minutes while being downrange 78 miles. Apollo 17 was launched at night and turned part of the sky blue. It was quite impressive.