Round up all the people on California? Too much work. Detonate a couple of well placed explosives along a fault line, and you can get all those troublemakers to just slide right off into the Pacific instead. When that happens, that'll be the day I go back to Annandale.
But Santorum is a lunatic and a corporate whore. I could show you a Venn diagram with lunatic and shill circles in it that all the candidates fit into, makes it easy to visualize. And since it's displaying a Venn diagram on the web, that is of course a patentable advance.
How about "small company temporarily patents the obvious and loses a lot of money to lawyers" instead then? That's where this is going; the fact that they do have a product just means they can be counter-sued to death, a problem true patent trolls are immune to.
Can't be sympathetic for the small company when it's yet another variation on the " but on the web now!" patent nonsense. The idea that this was novel is 2007 makes the one-click ordering patent look like genius innovation; at least that hadn't been going on for a decade, all over the world, by the time of filing. I had a database-backed web site communicating among groups of people (the various divisions of my employer being one set) with an e-mail to FAX gateway in 1995. It was new then, but even at that point I considered it an obvious step, once the infrastructure was available.
That's why he's certainly never going to profit from this move. NPE patent trolls survive only because they can't be destroyed with a coutersuit, when the larger company finds something in their patent pool that applies well enough to launch the suit. The proper trolls have no product that can be infringing, making them immune to that fear. The minute this guy gets any real traction, he's going to be countersued into oblivion. You can't play something almost like the patent troll game but while having a real product. The best thing that could happen this this company is that their patent is invalidated; they might stay in business that way.
If you're an asshole, you can use a crappy 96kB MP3 and blow it up into a FLAC file.
As an asshole, I'd like to point out you're not giving us enough credit. I would never use greater than a 64kbps rate for my source files when claiming they're CD quality FLAC.
You're thinking of Mocap Boxing, which when played properly is an exhausting game. It becomes increasingly difficult to actually play the game properly at higher levels though. There are spots where you have to throw 50 punches in a row, in a short time period. I had to settle into a wrist flick that it accepted as a punch to make through those. Even with that small cheat, I still found how far I got in the game was determined by my physical conditioning.
I once watched a pre-teen boy play the game and do nearly as well as I did. He never threw a real punch; he just banged the two gloves together, taking a fraction of the energy to play normally. Some kids will go to amazing lengths to avoid real exercise.
Well, it's obvious this guy doesn't understand how RFCs work, or he wouldn't even be trying to make these claims. You can find every individual component he talks about in an earlier program. It seems he thinks his really was the first program to combine this exact feature set into a single one. I doubt that, too, but what I was trying to point out is that he's not claiming to have invented electronic messaging. Instead he's claiming to have written the first "modern" client including a critical mass of features, many of which really weren't popular in early clients. Debunking that practically requires a retrospective e-mail feature checkbox grid circa 1978.
We can't prove that he's a liar. He might just have a terribly incomplete understanding of his minimal role in computer history. I believe he thinks he's telling the truth, he's just wrong about what that is.
Wow, this self-important wanker even has inventorofemail.com. The Boston interview seems to state his weak-ass case the best. When faced with Tomlinson's 1971 record, he says that isn't really e-mail. Apparently he thinks that some subset of having folders or blind carbon copy are somehow amazing innovations, the things that made his work modern e-mail while earlier ones were not. Whatever.
I find it amusing that the incomplete 1971 ancestor to RFC561, RFC196 "A Mail Box Protocol", already includes the concept that instead of a full mail program you might just telnet somewhere and speak the mail protocol to that.
Ayyadurai may have been the first person to use the term "email".
Nope; that was probably BBN Mercury in 1965. Every important component to e-mail can be found by that year; that page even specifically debunks this bozo at the top. Like a lot of things, the minute electronic mail became feasible to build, e-mail was built by multiple people. All the requirements were in place the minute a community of people on time-shared computers existed. The number of independent creations of the same thing during a short time period show it was really an obvious next step the minute two people could use the same computer.
vi vs emacs? Please. Real greybeard curmudgeons argue over the best set of TECO macros to use, and about whether editing on a full screen really makes sense.
Sure, there needs to be a pair of unbalanced bots doing battle to drive prices really crazy. What I meant by one-way is that many HFT trades will normally fire in the direction overall market momentum is already taking the stock price. If someone is selling a large quantity of a stock they actually own a position in, as was the case in the May 2010 Flash Crash, more entitites piling onto the sell side does not provide anything of value. Relative to them, liquidity is being usefully added to the market when a new trading entity causes the average bid/ask differential for buyers or sellers to narrow. HFT can easily increasing volume while doing the opposite: increasing the spread.
Options and other hedges add complexity, but ultimately even the more complicated trades are normally tried to a real equity or commodity (or a basket of them) somewhere. And by definition, long-term stock prices are driven by traders who hold a position for a longer period of time, for something more fundamental than just an instant of momentum. When HFT slices a chunk of profit off a larger move being driven by a fundamentals trade, they're increasing the cost of moving into that position for the person taking the longer term position. That doesn't help anyone except the HFT trader--if they're making a profit off a price move, someone else is paying them for it. And that increases price volatility rather than reducing the spread.
True liquidity requires that trades be backed by some ownership. HFT only provides the illusion of liquidity in one direction--that which the stock is moving in. Where they truly a source of liquidity, in both directions, high-frequency traders would have helped minimize the impact of the large sell orders that started the 2010 Flash Crash. Instead, they helped create that crash.
I started reading David Gerrold's The War Against the Chtorr series in 1985. The last published volume, the 4th in what is now expected to be a series of 7, was published in 1993. It ends with a cliffhanger where all of the main characters are seemingly doomed. The Wheel of Time has whizzed by in comparison.
Even Blowfish's author Bruce Schneier recommends against using Blowfish now. The world at large has moved onto AES instead, and any sensible user would want that instead of the old solution. There is a big difference between that and the sort of user hostile changes the GNOME team has made. You can't add serious feature changes like this to a file format and expect old versions to read them.
If you think needing to show an ID is bad, you still live in one of the lucky states for pseudoephedrine. In Oregon and Mississippi, you need a prescription to buy it.
match.com has created so many fake profiles for the purpose of deceiving members that there's a class action lawsuit over it pending as of last year. So, no, that hasn't changed since your fake robot created e-mail in 1999.
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I also tried to build a currency based on Ripple once, but I couldn't remember where I'd hidden it all at when the hangover wore off.
Round up all the people on California? Too much work. Detonate a couple of well placed explosives along a fault line, and you can get all those troublemakers to just slide right off into the Pacific instead. When that happens, that'll be the day I go back to Annandale.
The best thing about California is that people who live there never make sarcastic comments that sail right over people's heads.
But Santorum is a lunatic and a corporate whore. I could show you a Venn diagram with lunatic and shill circles in it that all the candidates fit into, makes it easy to visualize. And since it's displaying a Venn diagram on the web, that is of course a patentable advance.
How about "small company temporarily patents the obvious and loses a lot of money to lawyers" instead then? That's where this is going; the fact that they do have a product just means they can be counter-sued to death, a problem true patent trolls are immune to.
Can't be sympathetic for the small company when it's yet another variation on the " but on the web now!" patent nonsense. The idea that this was novel is 2007 makes the one-click ordering patent look like genius innovation; at least that hadn't been going on for a decade, all over the world, by the time of filing. I had a database-backed web site communicating among groups of people (the various divisions of my employer being one set) with an e-mail to FAX gateway in 1995. It was new then, but even at that point I considered it an obvious step, once the infrastructure was available.
That's why he's certainly never going to profit from this move. NPE patent trolls survive only because they can't be destroyed with a coutersuit, when the larger company finds something in their patent pool that applies well enough to launch the suit. The proper trolls have no product that can be infringing, making them immune to that fear. The minute this guy gets any real traction, he's going to be countersued into oblivion. You can't play something almost like the patent troll game but while having a real product. The best thing that could happen this this company is that their patent is invalidated; they might stay in business that way.
The Santorum capaign is already familiar with fighting against bowel movement issues.
If you're an asshole, you can use a crappy 96kB MP3 and blow it up into a FLAC file.
As an asshole, I'd like to point out you're not giving us enough credit. I would never use greater than a 64kbps rate for my source files when claiming they're CD quality FLAC.
You're thinking of Mocap Boxing, which when played properly is an exhausting game. It becomes increasingly difficult to actually play the game properly at higher levels though. There are spots where you have to throw 50 punches in a row, in a short time period. I had to settle into a wrist flick that it accepted as a punch to make through those. Even with that small cheat, I still found how far I got in the game was determined by my physical conditioning.
I once watched a pre-teen boy play the game and do nearly as well as I did. He never threw a real punch; he just banged the two gloves together, taking a fraction of the energy to play normally. Some kids will go to amazing lengths to avoid real exercise.
Well, it's obvious this guy doesn't understand how RFCs work, or he wouldn't even be trying to make these claims. You can find every individual component he talks about in an earlier program. It seems he thinks his really was the first program to combine this exact feature set into a single one. I doubt that, too, but what I was trying to point out is that he's not claiming to have invented electronic messaging. Instead he's claiming to have written the first "modern" client including a critical mass of features, many of which really weren't popular in early clients. Debunking that practically requires a retrospective e-mail feature checkbox grid circa 1978.
We can't prove that he's a liar. He might just have a terribly incomplete understanding of his minimal role in computer history. I believe he thinks he's telling the truth, he's just wrong about what that is.
Wow, this self-important wanker even has inventorofemail.com. The Boston interview seems to state his weak-ass case the best. When faced with Tomlinson's 1971 record, he says that isn't really e-mail. Apparently he thinks that some subset of having folders or blind carbon copy are somehow amazing innovations, the things that made his work modern e-mail while earlier ones were not. Whatever.
I find it amusing that the incomplete 1971 ancestor to RFC561, RFC196 "A Mail Box Protocol", already includes the concept that instead of a full mail program you might just telnet somewhere and speak the mail protocol to that.
Ayyadurai may have been the first person to use the term "email".
Nope; that was probably BBN Mercury in 1965. Every important component to e-mail can be found by that year; that page even specifically debunks this bozo at the top. Like a lot of things, the minute electronic mail became feasible to build, e-mail was built by multiple people. All the requirements were in place the minute a community of people on time-shared computers existed. The number of independent creations of the same thing during a short time period show it was really an obvious next step the minute two people could use the same computer.
vi vs emacs? Please. Real greybeard curmudgeons argue over the best set of TECO macros to use, and about whether editing on a full screen really makes sense.
Sure, there needs to be a pair of unbalanced bots doing battle to drive prices really crazy. What I meant by one-way is that many HFT trades will normally fire in the direction overall market momentum is already taking the stock price. If someone is selling a large quantity of a stock they actually own a position in, as was the case in the May 2010 Flash Crash, more entitites piling onto the sell side does not provide anything of value. Relative to them, liquidity is being usefully added to the market when a new trading entity causes the average bid/ask differential for buyers or sellers to narrow. HFT can easily increasing volume while doing the opposite: increasing the spread.
Options and other hedges add complexity, but ultimately even the more complicated trades are normally tried to a real equity or commodity (or a basket of them) somewhere. And by definition, long-term stock prices are driven by traders who hold a position for a longer period of time, for something more fundamental than just an instant of momentum. When HFT slices a chunk of profit off a larger move being driven by a fundamentals trade, they're increasing the cost of moving into that position for the person taking the longer term position. That doesn't help anyone except the HFT trader--if they're making a profit off a price move, someone else is paying them for it. And that increases price volatility rather than reducing the spread.
True liquidity requires that trades be backed by some ownership. HFT only provides the illusion of liquidity in one direction--that which the stock is moving in. Where they truly a source of liquidity, in both directions, high-frequency traders would have helped minimize the impact of the large sell orders that started the 2010 Flash Crash. Instead, they helped create that crash.
I started reading David Gerrold's The War Against the Chtorr series in 1985. The last published volume, the 4th in what is now expected to be a series of 7, was published in 1993. It ends with a cliffhanger where all of the main characters are seemingly doomed. The Wheel of Time has whizzed by in comparison.
Even Blowfish's author Bruce Schneier recommends against using Blowfish now. The world at large has moved onto AES instead, and any sensible user would want that instead of the old solution. There is a big difference between that and the sort of user hostile changes the GNOME team has made. You can't add serious feature changes like this to a file format and expect old versions to read them.
Whenever they hear classical music afterwards, it will remind them of their time in copland.
To track where they go, youths will also be added to a government watch liszt.
You should take a look at the pornography laws in China before you do that. That's a good way to land in jail a few years.
If you think needing to show an ID is bad, you still live in one of the lucky states for pseudoephedrine. In Oregon and Mississippi, you need a prescription to buy it.
match.com has created so many fake profiles for the purpose of deceiving members that there's a class action lawsuit over it pending as of last year. So, no, that hasn't changed since your fake robot created e-mail in 1999.
I tell them I'm full of laziness, impatience, and hubris. And it's all true.