Looking at Overture.com's about page, I see the following: "The company was created in 1997 in response to three fundamental problems it perceived with Internet search, including poor quality results, random ordering of listings and a weak advertising revenue model"
1997? Someone HAD to be doing this before 1997.
Also.... "System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine." seems pretty vague. Anything searchable and sortable on a network is subject to this, whether it be by clicking a button that says Date to sort by date or sorting by relevance or whatever. The basis of a search engine is to sort matching hits by order of relevance.... I don't see how this is patentable (then again, as our patent office has proven, ANYTHING can be patented, no matter how dumb or no matter how many million people have done it before).
"I am personally against this bill as it has the possibility of labeling me as a criminal for my participation in Open Sorce projects such as Handhelds.Org and Tuxscreen, where we endeavor replace proprietary operating systems on consumer electronics with Linux."
My first suggestion would be to visit your English 101 teacher.
Turning it off is one thing. Ripping it out is another. The article cites bleeding where they ripped electrodes out. Imagine the airport security pulling off your body parts (because hey, thats what they really are for this guy). Fingernails, for example. Sure, you can still function without fingernails, but the initial shock of having them ripped off is definitely going to mess up your sense of touch (on your fingers anyways). This guy has every reason to be pissed....
Actually, since he has worked with this equipment for 20+ years, his actual train of thought might be screwed up. I remember something from when the original story was posted that talked about how, without his vision equipment, he was disillusioned and had a hard time using his natural senses. His dependency on the equipment makes him a true cyborg, I suppose.. -kwishot
Isn't it kind of pointless to reply to spammers? First off, 99% of the time they're using bogus return addresses, so it's not even possible to send a legitimate reply.
Second, wouldn't one assume that if you reply to a spam email, your address would be moved to the "confirmed active" list or something.... only to cause more spam?
A more constructive way of using your persuasive writing skills would be to email the spammers ISP and have the spammers shut down.
"According to my heart rate monitor, my pulse spiked at 240 during those."
!!!!! I'm 19 and my supposed "max heart rate" is 201.
He sure was right with his next sentence - "By all rights, I should not only be dead, but my heart should have exploded so violently, that there shouldn't be enough left of me to put on a Triscuit."
I intend on joining the Marine Corps (enlisted already...leaving in a few months) and after doing a decent run my heart rate is usually around 190 or so and I've been told that 190 is a "dangerously high" heart rate. Anyone have any insight on this? I mean... 240...that's insane!
Not that it's particularly relevant, but tanks are being phased out. (m1a1, etc) Most things in the near future will be Infantry-type groups and planes with bombs.
If they make these suits detectable, so that your allies can see you but the enemy can't (maybe have them emit some frequency or something), they had better be SURE that the detection technology doesn't get in the wrong hands (which it probably would, unfortunately).
The one MOS that this would be extremely effective in is a sniping job. The snipers goal in life is to remain unseen and to shoot people. Having this suit would take care of half the battle.
Don't many video cards with digital connections also have standard analog connections? I seem to remember that quite a few of the ones that I've seen have.
If so, do both connectors output the signal even if only one is in use?
This may be regarded by some as flamebait or possibly even offtopic, but has anyone thought about how this stuff is funded? "The National Nuclear Security Administration" certainly sounds like a military-related entity to me.
Would we have these advances in technology if the Democrats were still in office? A lot of people criticize GWB for being dumb, or whatever stupid reasons they can think up, but a lot of innovative technologies are researched by the military. Higher military funding = more technological innovation. I'm not sure that this particular event is directly related to something GWB has done or pushed for, but I do know that there are a lot of things that have (or will) come from Government/Military research.
Say the laws were different and good ol' Bill was still in office, do you think we would have awesome completely 3-dimensional simulations of Nuclear blasts? Hell no. We're lucky "The National Nuclear Security Administration" even lasted through that mess of 8 years. Thoughts anyone?
But do you want a cd-rom hanging out of the side of your ps2? Aesthetics, man. "Hey man I'll bring over my ps2...just hold it straight so all of the parts don't fall out"
Replacing the existing drive would probably be a futile attempt....I'm sure it's proprietary enough that it just wouldn't work (e.g. reading ps2 discs, etc)
Another poster also said that the media should be readable if you mount it properly. They make the drive...you think they can't cripple it to see or not to see certain media? It's proprietary, man, they can do whatever the heck they want.
In short, a cd-rom drive would likely work, but unless you feel like having it hang out the side, or doing some surgery and making it fit in a (probably already tight) ps2 case, go for it. But removing native support is just dumb on sonys part.
Also...thinking about this more....not only can it not read cd-r's, but it can't read regular cds either! Everything has to be downloaded.... bleh Either that or we're all going to have to invest in DVD burners!
"Can I read my own CD-R discs using Linux (for PlayStation 2) ? No. The PlayStation 2 is designed not to read CD-R "gold" discs. Only PlayStation CD-ROM and PlayStation 2 CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are compatible."
Does anyone else see this as a MAJOR setback? For people who might not have a home network, adding software to this system will be a major pain! There is the option of broadband or something...but still... not everyone has that. Why on earth would they make it not read cd-r's? I can understand that they don't want people to pirate games, but if they're going to release a "full-featured" system, crippling it like that is not a wise thing to do!
I realize that this is a somewhat offtopic question, but does anyone know why 802.11a, or 802.11anything-but-b equipment is not out yet? If I remember correctly, 802.11a goes 54mbps full duplex, as opposed to the current 11mbps on 802.11b. I don't know about you guys, but the idea that something faster exists and should be accessible is what's keeping me from buying anything wireless right now.
This would be a step backwards in court cases that rely on DNA evidence.
With people being truly identical in every which way (not including haircuts and stuff like that) including DNA, it would be nearly impossible to prove innocence or guilt of one of the clones in a court case that currently relies on such technologies.
Think about it... "Your client was on the security camera and it was his blood on the floor"
"No, your honor, it was his identical clone with the same DNA - my client was nowhere near the place of the incident"
Which theories are right... psychology or sociology.
The age-old "nature vs nurture" debate. If the Chinese continue with this, we'll truly be able to see how much the external environment affects ones personality, etc. Seeing as we've never had a "control set" before, a lot of things in those fields are pretty much assumed or inferred.
The other side of this whole thing, though, is of course the moral side. When will we go "too far" and start generating clones for blood, organs, etc, and leaving the rest for waste? Can anyone else picture the human fields in "The Matrix"? Humans do make great power plants....lets just hope we don't exploit ourselves to extinction!
Here in the USA (Wisconsin), we don't have the luxury of McDonalds accepting credit cards. Also, the register being "In Use" - please explain what you mean by that. Is there some sort of Kiosk where you can place orders yourself or something?
If one of these things ever gets stolen, there is literally no way to trace where it is. No signatures... nothing. With a credit card there are a few more layers of security.
First, it needs to be swiped (can't be read from a distance...which can be potentially bad) Second, you need to sign for it Third, many credit cards have the option of a picture...
Wouldn't these things be pretty prone to EMI? Also.... I'm not sure if this is an issue, but what if it runs out of batteries? Or... even better yet... what if someone makes a "speedpass scanner" and walks around a mall for an afternoon, leeching from everyone closeby.
Seems pretty exploitable...anyone have experience with these? I would imagine that having these more widespread would open them up to more problems.
But can you buy a proprietary Compaq motherboard at your local computer store? If it's that much more of a hassle for companies to make their stuff "Designed for XP", you'd think they'd only do it when they *have* to (e.g. under pressure from Compaq, Dell, Gateway, etc for a *specific* custom model destined to have an XP Preinstall) I can understand a manufacturer doing the extra effort for one of those major companies listed above, only because it would mean tens of thousands (more?) of a specific motherboard in one sale. But putting the extra $$$ into other products "just to get the sticker" doesn't make any sense to me, especially when the people who will use that product most generally don't care how XP certified it is.
Honestly, how important is this sticker? "Designed for Windows XP" and "Windows XP Compatible" are totally different concepts. This list of requirements (which, btw, doesn't force ACPI to be disabled) is for companies to market their products as "Designed for Windows XP" Ok...who are the people buying motherboards and other parts separately so that they can put it all together themselves? "The Geeks"... "The Geeks" are the most likely crowd to be putting an alternative operating system, such as linux, on their assembled system, and wouldn't care much about how "Designed for XP" their systems are. The companies who I would picture to be most worried about having this sticker are companies who use completely proprietary systems with Windows XP pre-installs anyways (Dell, Gateway, Compaq, etc) and need to market their systems as such. If that's the case... no one can complain about their system not being linux or anything compatible because they bought a "Designed for Windows XP" system. Designed for XP... preinstalled with XP... marketed with XP.
To sum it up... this sticker has a much lower value than one might think...the only people who need it are... the people who need it (make sense?)
This link says nothing about disabling the ACPI feature in the BIOS, all it says is that the board must be fully ACPI compliant. I would view this as more of a Soyo issue than a MS issue. If Soyo chose to take the option away, that's Soyo's decision...and has no bearing on the "XP Readiness" of the board.
The text in question: ------ "Power management, docking station support, and Plug and Play capabilities for ***mobiles*** must be wholly ACPI-based, as APM support has been removed from Windows XP. [A3.4.7]
Desktop system support required for S3 and Fast Boot capabilities, based on Windows XP advances for ACPI-compliant power management. [A1.4.2]
Desktop and server systems must implement ACPI-based APIC support, because of how Windows NT®-based operating systems process interrupts. [A1.4.11]
ACPI-based support for multiprocessor systems, based on Windows XP/Windows Whistler Server support. [A1.4.12]
PCI-based network adapters for desktop systems must support wake from D3 cold, to ensure correct system-wide support for wake from sleep states supported under Windows XP. [B7.1.4.4]"
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Looking at Overture.com's about page, I see the following:
"The company was created in 1997 in response to three fundamental problems it perceived with Internet search, including poor quality results, random ordering of listings and a weak advertising revenue model"
1997? Someone HAD to be doing this before 1997.
Also.... "System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine." seems pretty vague. Anything searchable and sortable on a network is subject to this, whether it be by clicking a button that says Date to sort by date or sorting by relevance or whatever.
The basis of a search engine is to sort matching hits by order of relevance.... I don't see how this is patentable (then again, as our patent office has proven, ANYTHING can be patented, no matter how dumb or no matter how many million people have done it before).
-kwishot
"I am personally against this bill as it has the possibility of labeling me as a criminal for my participation in Open Sorce projects such as Handhelds.Org and Tuxscreen, where we endeavor replace proprietary operating systems on consumer electronics with Linux."
My first suggestion would be to visit your English 101 teacher.
Turning it off is one thing. Ripping it out is another. The article cites bleeding where they ripped electrodes out.
Imagine the airport security pulling off your body parts (because hey, thats what they really are for this guy). Fingernails, for example. Sure, you can still function without fingernails, but the initial shock of having them ripped off is definitely going to mess up your sense of touch (on your fingers anyways). This guy has every reason to be pissed....
-kwishot
Actually, since he has worked with this equipment for 20+ years, his actual train of thought might be screwed up. I remember something from when the original story was posted that talked about how, without his vision equipment, he was disillusioned and had a hard time using his natural senses.
His dependency on the equipment makes him a true cyborg, I suppose..
-kwishot
Thats what they said about Netscape....
Isn't it kind of pointless to reply to spammers?
First off, 99% of the time they're using bogus return addresses, so it's not even possible to send a legitimate reply.
Second, wouldn't one assume that if you reply to a spam email, your address would be moved to the "confirmed active" list or something.... only to cause more spam?
A more constructive way of using your persuasive writing skills would be to email the spammers ISP and have the spammers shut down.
-kwishot
"According to my heart rate monitor, my pulse spiked at 240 during those."
!!!!!
I'm 19 and my supposed "max heart rate" is 201.
He sure was right with his next sentence - "By all rights, I should not only be dead, but my heart should have exploded so violently, that there shouldn't be enough left of me to put on a Triscuit."
I intend on joining the Marine Corps (enlisted already...leaving in a few months) and after doing a decent run my heart rate is usually around 190 or so and I've been told that 190 is a "dangerously high" heart rate. Anyone have any insight on this? I mean... 240...that's insane!
-kwishot
Not that it's particularly relevant, but tanks are being phased out. (m1a1, etc)
Most things in the near future will be Infantry-type groups and planes with bombs.
-kwishot
Hello, friendly fire!
"I didn't see him, I swear!"
If they make these suits detectable, so that your allies can see you but the enemy can't (maybe have them emit some frequency or something), they had better be SURE that the detection technology doesn't get in the wrong hands (which it probably would, unfortunately).
The one MOS that this would be extremely effective in is a sniping job. The snipers goal in life is to remain unseen and to shoot people. Having this suit would take care of half the battle.
-kwishot
"If a tree falls over...."
=)
-kwishot
Don't many video cards with digital connections also have standard analog connections? I seem to remember that quite a few of the ones that I've seen have.
If so, do both connectors output the signal even if only one is in use?
-kwishot
This may be regarded by some as flamebait or possibly even offtopic, but has anyone thought about how this stuff is funded? "The National Nuclear Security Administration" certainly sounds like a military-related entity to me.
Would we have these advances in technology if the Democrats were still in office?
A lot of people criticize GWB for being dumb, or whatever stupid reasons they can think up, but a lot of innovative technologies are researched by the military. Higher military funding = more technological innovation.
I'm not sure that this particular event is directly related to something GWB has done or pushed for, but I do know that there are a lot of things that have (or will) come from Government/Military research.
Say the laws were different and good ol' Bill was still in office, do you think we would have awesome completely 3-dimensional simulations of Nuclear blasts? Hell no. We're lucky "The National Nuclear Security Administration" even lasted through that mess of 8 years.
Thoughts anyone?
-kwishot
But do you want a cd-rom hanging out of the side of your ps2?
Aesthetics, man. "Hey man I'll bring over my ps2...just hold it straight so all of the parts don't fall out"
Replacing the existing drive would probably be a futile attempt....I'm sure it's proprietary enough that it just wouldn't work (e.g. reading ps2 discs, etc)
Another poster also said that the media should be readable if you mount it properly. They make the drive...you think they can't cripple it to see or not to see certain media? It's proprietary, man, they can do whatever the heck they want.
In short, a cd-rom drive would likely work, but unless you feel like having it hang out the side, or doing some surgery and making it fit in a (probably already tight) ps2 case, go for it.
But removing native support is just dumb on sonys part.
-kwishot
You think there's a 5 1/4" bay free?
Also...thinking about this more....not only can it not read cd-r's, but it can't read regular cds either!
Everything has to be downloaded.... bleh
Either that or we're all going to have to invest in DVD burners!
-kwishot
"Can I read my own CD-R discs using Linux (for PlayStation 2) ?
No. The PlayStation 2 is designed not to read CD-R "gold" discs. Only PlayStation CD-ROM and PlayStation 2 CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are compatible."
Does anyone else see this as a MAJOR setback?
For people who might not have a home network, adding software to this system will be a major pain! There is the option of broadband or something...but still... not everyone has that.
Why on earth would they make it not read cd-r's?
I can understand that they don't want people to pirate games, but if they're going to release a "full-featured" system, crippling it like that is not a wise thing to do!
-kwishot
I realize that this is a somewhat offtopic question, but does anyone know why 802.11a, or 802.11anything-but-b equipment is not out yet? If I remember correctly, 802.11a goes 54mbps full duplex, as opposed to the current 11mbps on 802.11b.
I don't know about you guys, but the idea that something faster exists and should be accessible is what's keeping me from buying anything wireless right now.
-kwishot
This would be a step backwards in court cases that rely on DNA evidence.
With people being truly identical in every which way (not including haircuts and stuff like that) including DNA, it would be nearly impossible to prove innocence or guilt of one of the clones in a court case that currently relies on such technologies.
Think about it...
"Your client was on the security camera and it was his blood on the floor"
"No, your honor, it was his identical clone with the same DNA - my client was nowhere near the place of the incident"
-kwishot
Which theories are right... psychology or sociology.
The age-old "nature vs nurture" debate. If the Chinese continue with this, we'll truly be able to see how much the external environment affects ones personality, etc.
Seeing as we've never had a "control set" before, a lot of things in those fields are pretty much assumed or inferred.
The other side of this whole thing, though, is of course the moral side. When will we go "too far" and start generating clones for blood, organs, etc, and leaving the rest for waste? Can anyone else picture the human fields in "The Matrix"? Humans do make great power plants....lets just hope we don't exploit ourselves to extinction!
-kwishot
Ummm.... where do you live?
Here in the USA (Wisconsin), we don't have the luxury of McDonalds accepting credit cards.
Also, the register being "In Use" - please explain what you mean by that. Is there some sort of Kiosk where you can place orders yourself or something?
-kwishot
If one of these things ever gets stolen, there is literally no way to trace where it is.
No signatures... nothing.
With a credit card there are a few more layers of security.
First, it needs to be swiped (can't be read from a distance...which can be potentially bad)
Second, you need to sign for it
Third, many credit cards have the option of a picture...
Pretty scary.
-kwishot
Wouldn't these things be pretty prone to EMI?
Also.... I'm not sure if this is an issue, but what if it runs out of batteries?
Or... even better yet... what if someone makes a "speedpass scanner" and walks around a mall for an afternoon, leeching from everyone closeby.
Seems pretty exploitable...anyone have experience with these? I would imagine that having these more widespread would open them up to more problems.
-kwishot
But can you buy a proprietary Compaq motherboard at your local computer store?
If it's that much more of a hassle for companies to make their stuff "Designed for XP", you'd think they'd only do it when they *have* to (e.g. under pressure from Compaq, Dell, Gateway, etc for a *specific* custom model destined to have an XP Preinstall) I can understand a manufacturer doing the extra effort for one of those major companies listed above, only because it would mean tens of thousands (more?) of a specific motherboard in one sale. But putting the extra $$$ into other products "just to get the sticker" doesn't make any sense to me, especially when the people who will use that product most generally don't care how XP certified it is.
-kwishot
Honestly, how important is this sticker? "Designed for Windows XP" and "Windows XP Compatible" are totally different concepts. ... "The Geeks" are the most likely crowd to be putting an alternative operating system, such as linux, on their assembled system, and wouldn't care much about how "Designed for XP" their systems are.
This list of requirements (which, btw, doesn't force ACPI to be disabled) is for companies to market their products as "Designed for Windows XP"
Ok...who are the people buying motherboards and other parts separately so that they can put it all together themselves? "The Geeks"
The companies who I would picture to be most worried about having this sticker are companies who use completely proprietary systems with Windows XP pre-installs anyways (Dell, Gateway, Compaq, etc) and need to market their systems as such. If that's the case... no one can complain about their system not being linux or anything compatible because they bought a "Designed for Windows XP" system. Designed for XP... preinstalled with XP... marketed with XP.
To sum it up... this sticker has a much lower value than one might think...the only people who need it are... the people who need it (make sense?)
-kwishot
Hey I agree totally. The boards have great specs... tons of cool features... nice documentation... the whole bit.
They just have a HIGH failure rate.
You got lucky =)
-kwishot
This link says nothing about disabling the ACPI feature in the BIOS, all it says is that the board must be fully ACPI compliant.
I would view this as more of a Soyo issue than a MS issue.
If Soyo chose to take the option away, that's Soyo's decision...and has no bearing on the "XP Readiness" of the board.
The text in question:
------
"Power management, docking station support, and Plug and Play capabilities for ***mobiles*** must be wholly ACPI-based, as APM support has been removed from Windows XP. [A3.4.7]
Desktop system support required for S3 and Fast Boot capabilities, based on Windows XP advances for ACPI-compliant power management. [A1.4.2]
Desktop and server systems must implement ACPI-based APIC support, because of how Windows NT®-based operating systems process interrupts. [A1.4.11]
ACPI-based support for multiprocessor systems, based on Windows XP/Windows Whistler Server support. [A1.4.12]
PCI-based network adapters for desktop systems must support wake from D3 cold, to ensure correct system-wide support for wake from sleep states supported under Windows XP. [B7.1.4.4]"
-kwishot