You are right that the costs are high, but they are not prohibitive. Also, these costs are not created by the current "monopoly" but rather by the inherent fact that these things cost money. I live in a rather poor neighborhood in Chicago, and I can choose between two different cable companies in my building. It used to be three but there was a merger. If costs were truly prohibitive, there wouldn't be such a choice.
Well, you live in Chicago which is one of the most densely populated cities in the country. Most of the country isn't like that.
I live in Boston, another one of those really dense cities. Though there are some places where you've got a choice of two cable companies (as long as RCN stays in business), in my part of town we've just got Comcast. Imagine rolling out a parallel cable network in smalltown USA.
Also, what strikes me as funny is how the rovers production process was all-cleanroom/rubber suits, only to expose these things to one of the most dusty surroundings known to man. (I think that's how I am going to define Mars from now on) Maybe the Russian approach of 'when it breaks during production, it wasn't strong enough anyway', would be more suitable to high stress environments.
How about avoiding contamination by Earthly biology since they're trying to detect signs of life on Mars?
Well.. the patent you want wouldn't be on the idea of speech to text that works well but on some piece of the technology that allows you to actually do it. There are lots of patents out there on parts of the problem, but also clearly lots more improvements are needed.
It seems to me that the grey area has to do with patents that are just barely non-obvious (like one-click shopping). Details of complex technology are often quite far from obvious and make a lot more sense to patent. Even when they're software.
Don't radio stations have all sorts of restrictions on how much control the users have over the playlists? IIRC, the restrictions range from: the radio station being strictly prohibited from publishing its playlist, request shows requiring at least an hour between when someone calls in a song to when they actually play it, DJs being required to talk over the beginning and end of the songs, and requring the DJ to not tell you the name of the song until after it has played.
Some of these are the kinds of restrictions that are being imposed on licensed webcasters, including e.g. webcast from a college radio station.. or at least things like can't publish a song on the playlist before it's been played, can't play an entire album, or more than three songs from the same album within 2 hours (something like that).
Broadcast radio has no such restrictions except as self-imposed by bad corporate radio.. college radio certainly doesn't require any of the above.
I'm not too sure about that. Linux distros aren't nearly as flexible as they need to be. When you take a Linux harddrive from one system to another, you almost always need to manually work-out one problem or another.
Heh. Ever try that with Windows, esp when the machines have different chipsets? I've never had much trouble swapping machines under Linux.
Oh c'mon there are a ton of successful indies out there.. but yeah it's cool that Dischord is still doing their thing.
What impresses me is the big indie DISTRIBUTORS. Revolver (and the corresponding Midheaven mail order), Forced Exposure, Surefire, etc. These guys are the ones that are helping keep the indies alive.
One solution in that case of unopposed races is to support a write-in candidate with a specific view on the particular issue that bothers you: no chance to prevent them from winning (most likely), but you can send a message if enough people register their dissatisfaction.
I suppose it's too late for this years election in this case for a registered write-in candidate, but as an example here's what the anti-war movement is suggesting here in MA wrt our unopposed senate race.
I use ddclient to update a dynamic IP address.. (from zoneedit.com in this case, though there are plenty out there).
http://burry.ca:4141/ddclient/
You could use wget as your client as well, of course, but ddclient runs as a daemon so if I hibernate the machine it starts poking the net soon as it gets woken up.. assuming it's plugged into the network, of course.
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Well feel free to go and look up the JASA paper which was linked from both the slashdot post and the article itself.
Well, you live in Chicago which is one of the most densely populated cities in the country. Most of the country isn't like that.
I live in Boston, another one of those really dense cities. Though there are some places where you've got a choice of two cable companies (as long as RCN stays in business), in my part of town we've just got Comcast. Imagine rolling out a parallel cable network in smalltown USA.
How about avoiding contamination by Earthly biology since they're trying to detect signs of life on Mars?
Well .. the patent you want wouldn't be on the idea of speech to text that works well but on some piece of the technology that allows you to actually do it. There are lots of patents out there on parts of the problem, but also clearly lots more improvements are needed.
It seems to me that the grey area has to do with patents that are just barely non-obvious (like one-click shopping). Details of complex technology are often quite far from obvious and make a lot more sense to patent. Even when they're software.
Some of these are the kinds of restrictions that are being imposed on licensed webcasters, including e.g. webcast from a college radio station
Broadcast radio has no such restrictions except as self-imposed by bad corporate radio
Heh. Ever try that with Windows, esp when the machines have different chipsets? I've never had much trouble swapping machines under Linux.
You do know how argv works, right? Reversing the letters would take a lot more work since you'd have to find the end of the string..
DC certainly gets a vote for president. Check out the 23rd amendment:
Some notes and
the text of the amendment.
OK, so only since about 1961.
Puerto Rico doesn't, but that's another thing..
Oh c'mon there are a ton of successful indies out there.. but yeah it's cool that Dischord is still doing their thing.
What impresses me is the big indie DISTRIBUTORS. Revolver (and the corresponding Midheaven mail order), Forced Exposure, Surefire, etc. These guys are the ones that are helping keep the indies alive.
yeah but check out the leadership... which is nearly 100% major label folks, as far as I can read.
One solution in that case of unopposed races is to support a write-in candidate with a specific view on the particular issue that bothers you: no chance to prevent them from winning (most likely), but you can send a message if enough people register their dissatisfaction.
I suppose it's too late for this years election in this case for a registered write-in candidate, but as an example here's what the anti-war movement is suggesting here in MA wrt our unopposed senate race.
I use ddclient to update a dynamic IP address.. (from zoneedit.com in this case, though there are plenty out there).
http://burry.ca:4141/ddclient/
You could use wget as your client as well, of course, but ddclient runs as a daemon so if I hibernate the machine it starts poking the net soon as it gets woken up.. assuming it's plugged into the network, of course.
Fnord.