You didn't even mention the security aspect of his sitting there for 7 minutes. How was he, or the Secret Service, to know if the people that attacked the WTC wasn't going to come after Bush, too? He was _scheduled_ to be there with those kids, so 19 commandoes could have been waiting outside to kill him.
The point is, it was stupid to sit there for 7 minutes after the second plane hit, ANY way you look at it.
I hope you're not a programmer, or someone that depends on logic. Just because my name isn't on the patent is proof of nothing.
I gave an opinion that I think the patent is obvious. I gave evidence (you see groupings of things everywhere). Your assertions that I'm wrong are just silly, unless you want to use logic to convince me.
>> Until I see prior art, yes, I believe this idea is both novel and non-obvious.
Seeing prior art has nothing to do with the non-obvious part.
>> If I was designing something like this I wouldn't even have considered it. That makes it non-obvious. Whether or not it is novel depends on whether or not someone else did it first. I have seen no such thing.
Just because you think it's non-obvious doesn't make it so. I find it very obvious, and think I would have done the same. I think a lot of people would have, too. In your car, do you find the buttons grouped, say for your radio, air flow? Absolutely. It's obvious.
A year? Try almost 2. If it comes out next summer, that will be a little shy of 2 years after their 64-bit hardware was released (late summer '03 to early summer '05).
The guy's not really a liar, he's just very, very out there in terms of his views.
I'm getting pretty sick of seeing crap statements like this. How about filling in some facts for us? Non-factual statements like this outnumber factual ones by about 1000 to 1. Statements like this are nothing more than indirect criticism. Something like this which is repeated enough will gain many followers. I'm just getting sick of it and doing my part to stop it by calling people on it.
That's a brilliant strategy to combat this movie. Forget pointing out something false. That would be too logical. Just turn on the emotional outrage and let it rip. That will convince a lot of people the movie is bad. Really. It will.
Your comment, more than anything, is a damning indictment of your views.
I have to agree. I bought a cheap Sigma lens and rented a few Canon L lenses. The comparison was enough to make me immediately return the Sigma and shell out the extra cash for the L glass. I haven't regretted it for a second.
Cripes, I can't believe how many problems just finding the upgrade:
1. amazon.com doesn't have it 2. bestbuy doesn't find any "suse" products 3. beyond.com is out of business 4. borders was bought by amazon.com 5. cdromusa.com doesn't find any "suse" products 6. compusa (or cockusa as I friend calls them) doesn't list 9.1 at all. 7. programmer's paradise doesn't list 9.1 either 8. shopforsoftware site was too slow to bear
If you think he was blaming the dems, you didn't read very carefully. He was directly saying the republicans are currently in the driver's seat on the ability to steal, and that both parties have in the past stolen elections.
Before SUVs people were able to deal.... because they used vans and pickups.
The problem is that SUVs are designed poorly for sharing the road with non-SUVs (higher fatality rate in the other "car"), and design poorly period (roll overs). Pickups and vans don't suffer from these problems.
I'm still trying to forget all the many, many hours and $'s I wasted on the f'ing Jaz drive. Let's summarize:
1. It was slow. 2. It was unreliable. A significant percent of the disks died after a few months. 3. The low-level software was pernicious. My win98 was always crashing because of it. 4. The high-level synchronization software was so bad I wrote my own.
I came to really, really hate IOMega and that device.
If you have speakers on the machine you work on, turn something on loud when he does this. He'll get the idea. Eventually. Probably. OK, he sounds like a real dick, and you might have to put the smack down if he doesn't see the error of his ways.
The truth is, the balance has been tipped: the ratio of good to bad law suits is 1.
Our culture has become one of blame everything on everyone else. Nothing is my fault. I must get even. Oh, and I should get a ton of cash for my troubles.
It's only logical that the wronged Dr.'s will want to fight back. I would if I were them.
What do you interface with? I, being a humanoid, interface with the software. I "see" 32-bit.
Yeah, you can stuff 8GB of RAM into the box. So what? Can't a single application get all of it?. No. Yeah, there are some new instructions special versions of GCC can access. So what? Having them doesn't make the software any more 64-bit.
All this "no, it's 64-bit" is just you and others helping Apple out of a mistake.
If your definition of 64-bit is a 32-bit operating system around a 64-bit
chip, then the G5 is a 64-bit platform. Mac
OS X 10.2.7 (and the upcoming 10.3) is not a 64-bit operating system.
This is particularly frustrating because Apple's marketing machine has very
carefully crafted their message to
make a reasonable person believe the operating system is 64-bit, especially if
you download and read Power
Mac G5 Tech Overview (PDF). Apple says about the G5 version of Mac OS
X that it runs all of your software -- and runs it faster -- with a version of Mac OS X Jaguar specially tuned for the PowerPC G5 processor, providing a seamless transition to 64-bit power.
That's only the beginning of the smoke and mirrors. The 64-bit power only
gives users two things: the operating system can address up to 8GB of RAM,
though user
programs are still limited to 4GB, and some of the G5 numerical hardware is
available with a special version of GCC (3.3).
I completely agree. Unlike Windows, Linux doesn't need a faster processor to keep up with each new release.
My main mail/gateway/firewall/webserver is a Dual Celeron 500 and I don't see any reason to upgrade the processors. It ran Red Hat 7.3 very well for years, and now runs SuSE 9.0 just fine.
The only upgrades I've done were disk space related. The last one was a 3ware 7000-6 (IIRC) with 2 120GB Seagates for RAID 1.
every accident I've had was non-speed related. The one that was my fault (in 20 years) was me not paying attention while I was going slower than the speed limit. When I speed, I always pay close attention to everything. The ones that were not my fault also had nothing to do with speeding. They were the other drivers not looking before they turned.
Related to this: all of the speeding tickets I received (5 in 20 years?) were when I was barely going over the speed limit--many of them were speed traps. In each case, there was absolutely nothing unsafe about my speed. A couple of times I beat the ticket by going to court (because the cops were too embarrassed/busy to show up to defend the ticket).
The person that wrote it sure did not have a firm grasp of Lisp.
The use of eval was completely bogus. In any case, eval
takes one argument, not three.
This is a better one that actually works. I would have posted it here in the comment, but you can't format code in slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
You didn't even mention the security aspect of his sitting there for 7 minutes. How was he, or the Secret Service, to know if the people that attacked the WTC wasn't going to come after Bush, too? He was _scheduled_ to be there with those kids, so 19 commandoes could have been waiting outside to kill him.
The point is, it was stupid to sit there for 7 minutes after the second plane hit, ANY way you look at it.
I hope you're not a programmer, or someone that depends on logic. Just because my name isn't on the patent is proof of nothing.
I gave an opinion that I think the patent is obvious. I gave evidence (you see groupings of things everywhere). Your assertions that I'm wrong are just silly, unless you want to use logic to convince me.
>> Until I see prior art, yes, I believe this idea is both novel and non-obvious.
Seeing prior art has nothing to do with the non-obvious part.
>> If I was designing something like this I wouldn't even have considered it. That makes it non-obvious. Whether or not it is novel depends on whether or not someone else did it first. I have seen no such thing.
Just because you think it's non-obvious doesn't make it so. I find it very obvious, and think I would have done the same. I think a lot of people would have, too. In your car, do you find the buttons grouped, say for your radio, air flow? Absolutely. It's obvious.
A year? Try almost 2. If it comes out next summer, that will be a little shy of 2 years after their 64-bit hardware was released (late summer '03 to early summer '05).
Read what Billmon has to say. He is one of the most insightful humans I have the pleasure to read on a daily basis.
I'm getting pretty sick of seeing crap statements like this. How about filling in some facts for us? Non-factual statements like this outnumber factual ones by about 1000 to 1. Statements like this are nothing more than indirect criticism. Something like this which is repeated enough will gain many followers. I'm just getting sick of it and doing my part to stop it by calling people on it.
What are you doing but name calling?
That's a brilliant strategy to combat this movie. Forget pointing out something false. That would be too logical. Just turn on the emotional outrage and let it rip. That will convince a lot of people the movie is bad. Really. It will.
Your comment, more than anything, is a damning indictment of your views.
I have to agree. I bought a cheap Sigma lens and rented a few Canon L lenses. The comparison was enough to make me immediately return the Sigma and shell out the extra cash for the L glass. I haven't regretted it for a second.
It makes perfect sense... members of congress all drive cars but they don't want to hack Xboxes. Gimme mine, fuck you. That's the attitude alright.
I take it back, cheapbytes only has 9.0.
Looks like the suse store is the only place. How completely useless.
Cripes, I can't believe how many problems just finding the upgrade:
1. amazon.com doesn't have it
2. bestbuy doesn't find any "suse" products
3. beyond.com is out of business
4. borders was bought by amazon.com
5. cdromusa.com doesn't find any "suse" products
6. compusa (or cockusa as I friend calls them) doesn't list 9.1 at all.
7. programmer's paradise doesn't list 9.1 either
8. shopforsoftware site was too slow to bear
Finally found it at cheapbytes. Man!
If you think he was blaming the dems, you didn't read very carefully. He was directly saying the republicans are currently in the driver's seat on the ability to steal, and that both parties have in the past stolen elections.
Before SUVs people were able to deal.... because they used vans and pickups.
The problem is that SUVs are designed poorly for sharing the road with non-SUVs (higher fatality rate in the other "car"), and design poorly period (roll overs). Pickups and vans don't suffer from these problems.
WORD. (+5... Troll! I love it!)
I'm still trying to forget all the many, many hours and $'s I wasted on the f'ing Jaz drive. Let's summarize:
1. It was slow.
2. It was unreliable. A significant percent of the disks died after a few months.
3. The low-level software was pernicious. My win98 was always crashing because of it.
4. The high-level synchronization software was so bad I wrote my own.
I came to really, really hate IOMega and that device.
If you have speakers on the machine you work on, turn something on loud when he does this. He'll get the idea. Eventually. Probably. OK, he sounds like a real dick, and you might have to put the smack down if he doesn't see the error of his ways.
Word.
The truth is, the balance has been tipped: the ratio of good to bad law suits is 1.
Our culture has become one of blame everything on everyone else. Nothing is my fault. I must get even. Oh, and I should get a ton of cash for my troubles.
It's only logical that the wronged Dr.'s will want to fight back. I would if I were them.
Sad.
The hardware is 64-bit.
The software is 32-bit.
What do you interface with? I, being a humanoid, interface with the software. I "see" 32-bit.
Yeah, you can stuff 8GB of RAM into the box. So what? Can't a single application get all of it?. No. Yeah, there are some new instructions special versions of GCC can access. So what? Having them doesn't make the software any more 64-bit.
All this "no, it's 64-bit" is just you and others helping Apple out of a mistake.
If your definition of 64-bit is a 32-bit operating system around a 64-bit chip, then the G5 is a 64-bit platform. Mac OS X 10.2.7 (and the upcoming 10.3) is not a 64-bit operating system. This is particularly frustrating because Apple's marketing machine has very carefully crafted their message to make a reasonable person believe the operating system is 64-bit, especially if you download and read Power Mac G5 Tech Overview (PDF). Apple says about the G5 version of Mac OS X that it runs all of your software -- and runs it faster -- with a version of Mac OS X Jaguar specially tuned for the PowerPC G5 processor, providing a seamless transition to 64-bit power. That's only the beginning of the smoke and mirrors. The 64-bit power only gives users two things: the operating system can address up to 8GB of RAM, though user programs are still limited to 4GB, and some of the G5 numerical hardware is available with a special version of GCC (3.3).
It is discussed here.
I would imagine that it is not affected... perhaps this is a good time to plug it. Get it from here. Just Media Player Classic is also available.
I completely agree. Unlike Windows, Linux doesn't need a faster processor to keep up with each new release.
My main mail/gateway/firewall/webserver is a Dual Celeron 500 and I don't see any reason to upgrade the processors. It ran Red Hat 7.3 very well for years, and now runs SuSE 9.0 just fine.
The only upgrades I've done were disk space related. The last one was a 3ware 7000-6 (IIRC) with 2 120GB Seagates for RAID 1.
Dude! You forgot the 2nd most important link on your new site, the one that does the google search! Here it is.
every accident I've had was non-speed related. The one that was my fault (in 20 years) was me not paying attention while I was going slower than the speed limit. When I speed, I always pay close attention to everything. The ones that were not my fault also had nothing to do with speeding. They were the other drivers not looking before they turned.
Related to this: all of the speeding tickets I received (5 in 20 years?) were when I was barely going over the speed limit--many of them were speed traps. In each case, there was absolutely nothing unsafe about my speed. A couple of times I beat the ticket by going to court (because the cops were too embarrassed/busy to show up to defend the ticket).
Aaahhhhh, perhaps so you could have more than one????? Just a thought...
The person that wrote it sure did not have a firm grasp of Lisp. The use of eval was completely bogus. In any case, eval takes one argument, not three.
This is a better one that actually works. I would have posted it here in the comment, but you can't format code in slashdot.