If the people are on the public list of offenders, they're the scummiest of the scum.
That is true for some states. But some states (e.g. Texas) list EVERYONE, even if they were ordered to register for a non-sex crime (e.g. Kidnapper of 17 year old female, no violence outside of keeping person from leaving house for 3 hours). Or someone who was cleared of the offense, but must still register as a condition of having the charges dropped. It happens.
I really don't see the reason for the restrictions. If someone wanted location information, they would just drive there and record the figures their $100 GPS reciever spit out. More than close enough for a missle or something of the kind.
Actually, if you read the front page of the patent, it is a continuation of an application from Sept. 12, 1997.
The patent I was talking about was also filed Sept 12, 1997, but it looks like it was orphaned for some reason. (It's patent number 5,960,411 and it's in the references). The abstract and summary are the same (or VERY near) for 5,960,411 and 6,615,226.
Ignore the abstract and the summary (they are either the same or very close to their 1999 patent).
The claims are what matters and they do NOT match up with the abstract/summary. The claims talk about a system that will combine orders shipping to the same addresses from same customer.
The problem is that the abstract and summary do not really count. It is the specific claims that do. The abstract is the same as their 1999 patent and the summary is about 95% the same. The claims on the otherhand are different.
Either the patent office had a mix up, or they used the same application with slight mods...:)
From the claims, it covers just about ANY shopping cart that is intelligent enough to combine orders. And the abstract/summary, and the claims do not seem to match up. The abstract/summary talk about one-click and the claims talk about an intelligent order combining system. The abstract is the same as the 1999 patent by Hartman.
There are plenty of backend systems that will combine orders. Does this only cover systems that do it all in the frontend?
I have a few Marble FX's from a few years ago - best trackball I ever played with (so I bought a few spare ones).
As far as I'm concerned, these are the BEST. Large marble ball (works great for photo work), ergonomic design and works fine under X. I'm down to one spare and since my wife and I both love the things I need to find more of them. I wish I knew why logitech dropped them...:(
FreeBSD 1.0 cannot be run unless you have a Unix license. I'm not sure what this would cost you, but SCO is selling licenses to Linux users for $699.00, so my guess is about that. However you need to ask SCO, as they are the only ones legally selling such a license.
For Freebsd 2.0 the requirement of a Unix license was eliminated (there were only 7 files to re-implement).
I belive that requirement is no longer valid. It was based on the licensing of V7/32V Unix which was released by Caldera in January 2002. A later release put it under the original BSD license. Here is a Groklaw article talking about the way SCO tried to later say it was on for the 16bit code and non-commericial.
Since the bits of 1.X that were tainted are now release under a BSD license, well..... Thats why you can once again get FreeBSD 1.X if you look around enough.
I don't know about you, but the thought of someone adding that many core features at one time scares me. They should have renamed it and called it version 1.0, because thats what it really is....
Plus, are they following the ANSI standards for the features that have them? If so, they are going to break compatiability with prior versions. I would wait until atleast version 5.1 before even thinking about using it.
If he is a licenced ham radio operator, I doubt the amplifier is using is in any way "illegal".
I'm not sure what the maximum power output is in the United States, but here in Sweden, a licenced radio amateur operator can put out up to 1 kW or so without any additional license.
US hams (except holders of the soon to extinct novice license) are limited to 1500 watts almost everywhere except for a couple of special purpose areas. That is input to the antenna, which means if I want I can pump 1500 watts into a 9db antenna and get 12000 watts out... good for moon bounce.
As far as CB radios go, ANY amplifier is illegal, thats why Hams can not buy a 10 meter amp off the shelf (unless they are ancient!). If someone is selling an amp that is usable in the 11/10 meter band to a non-ham, they can also get hit with that $10,000 fine. Type accepted 10 meter amps have not been produced in years.
9600 is still the most common down on 2 meters, but get above 70 cm (aka 440Mhz), then 56k is not unheard of for back haul networks.
Not counting the fact that faster rates are not legal at 2 meters, you also have to take into account that a higher baud rate needs a higher bandwidth, and the bands are too small. At 2.4 and 5Ghz, I've seen people run a Megabit. As a matter of fact, there is a company out of austrialia(sp) that will sell hams wifi cards, tuned to the ham bands (and that we can change tuning on via software (which is illegal except for hams)), that combined with a 5+ watt amp and a decent dish will go thirty miles if you have line of sight.
GPL licenses apply to the distribution of derivatives, not products that happen to use a GPL'd service.
The problem is always, is the access library GPL or LGPL? If your access library is GPL, you can't write a C app to access the DB without putting it under the GPL.
Umm, no. The Itanium sucks at these kinds of tasks due to a long pipe line. Read this post for more info.
But a 5 times speed increase for me running a machine with a load with ATA disks?
If the pipeline clears/stalls are that bad (even with their massive L3 cache (1.5MB to 9MB), it looks like the Itaniums are really only good for number crunching and not much else.
While FreeBSD is a great OS/kernel, it doesn't scale as well as Linux, end of story.
Well I hope the article is wrong concerning how long it took to compile that kernel using a single processor Itanium 2...19 min?
Thu Jan 13 03:22:14 MST 2005 Thu Jan 13 03:41:52 MST 2005 make buildworld = 19.75 min
Tue Jan 18 21:32:08 MST 2005 Tue Jan 18 21:35:54 MST 2005 make buildkernel = 4 min
That is 25 min to compleatly rebuild FreeBSD 4.11 from source.
This is a P4 2.55 (no HTT) with on 1GB ram and PATA disks running FreeBSD 4.11. It was runing an X server, acting as a NAT router for my internal network, DNS server, web server and general purpose workstation (including SetiAtHome active).
It took my 6.0-Current (Sempron 2400+ 512MB/PATA) box 12 min for the kernel with ALL the debugging (aka WITNESS/INVARIANTS/DEBUGGERS) stuff in the compiling kernel.
Even a single processor Itanium 2 should have blown EITHER of my two boxes away.
Maybe they should concentrate on getting good performance from a single processor (which is way more common) before adding more CPUs (walk before running???).
Well the Sprint Treo 600 with the 1.20 update will do this just fine (I've got one.).
They all had the hardware, but until the latest update, the API was not there. From what I've heard they delayed the development to get it out the door.
What pisses me off is that it could do the other two things (voice activated dialing and ring in headset) if they would just produce another update.
Prior to 8.0 you just about had to do that, but with the ability to use gzip to compress your archives, it was not too bad unless you had lots of bytea or blobs in the DB.
But with the advent of Point-in-Time recovery in 8.0 thats changed. With the new utils you can make a dump of the system and just copy it and the WAL files around. Database crash (that is not handled automaticly)? Just load the backup and replay the WAL files to whatever point in time you want them. You can even use partial WAL files.
So what's this point-in-time recovery and what's it do better?
As I understand it, prior Point-in-Time recovery the WAL files would replay ALL of the transactions they contained, you could not pick were to end them.
With PIT you can tell the system to replay just to a certain point or all the way.
With the new utilities included with PostgreSQL 8.0(now beta) you can also use this as a backup system (it was not easy to do prior to this). Create a backup dump and load it into your backup server. Copy (rsync would work here) the WAL files over to the backup server and replay them as they compleate. When you need the backup, you can (using an included util) replay the last partial WAL file and bring the system up. If I were do this though I would most likely shrink the size of the WAL files from the stock 16MB to something a little smaller (unless your DB was VERY busy...).
BSD's free resulted in Sun, IBM, HP, Compaq, DEC, and who knows what else distributing their own tweaked, incompatible version of Unix.
Uh???? No, that you would have to lay at the feet of AT&T selling source licenses. Before you could get the BSD tapes, you had to have a AT&T source license. BSD had nothing to do with it. Out of the five names above only two were BSDish.
As for BSD causing incompatiablities, how has the GPL stopped the various Linux distributions from roaming all over the place? Compare Debian to SUSE to RedHat...
Only hitch is getting ATI drivers working for 3D support (currently you're stuck with 2d and thats it)
Huh? Maybe some of the wild stuff, but my ATI card works just fine in 3D mode. Here are a couple of selected tidbits from my dmesg.boot,XFree86.0.log, and glxinfo.
drm0: ATI Radeon If R250 9000 Chipset: "ATI Radeon 9000/PRO If (AGP/PCI)" direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20020827 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE TCL
It's not one of the top end cards, but for an average workstation (I do 95% programming so...)it works quite well. Here are a couple of specs... glxgears = 1400 FPS gloss = 375 fps fire = 60 fps geartrain = 200 fps ray = 67 fps
Nothing to get excited about, but I do have hardware 3D...
I've had my Treo 600 for about 6 weeks now and no lockups/reboots. I've got 20 or 30 third party apps, but almost all of mine are for palm 5.X and that may make the difference.
Since I had never had a palm based system prior to this, I don't miss the pen input (that was a selling point for me...:) )
Ok you could get a Gig for a million bucks. But the hardware to do all the bank switching (Z80's had a 64k address limit and even then you could only expect a 32k to 48k area to be usable (The other 16k was your OS in a ROM/EPROM)) would cost another half mill...
I was about to write a stinging reply to your message until I actually read the thing...
Continuing your thoughts, maybe we should throw anything concerning politics into there as well. I mean come on, it's a proven fact that 90% of the time, if a politician opens his/her mouth, it is a lie. Do we really want our kids learning how to lie, cheat, steal, etc, etc from the pros?
BWP For the humor impaired, the 90% figure MIGHT be on the high side (but not by much).
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If the people are on the public list of offenders, they're the scummiest of the scum.
That is true for some states. But some states (e.g. Texas) list EVERYONE, even if they were ordered to register for a non-sex crime (e.g. Kidnapper of 17 year old female, no violence outside of keeping person from leaving house for 3 hours). Or someone who was cleared of the offense, but must still register as a condition of having the charges dropped. It happens.
BWP
I really don't see the reason for the restrictions. If someone wanted location information, they would just drive there and record the figures their $100 GPS reciever spit out. More than close enough for a missle or something of the kind.
BWP
Actually, if you read the front page of the patent, it is a continuation of an application from Sept. 12, 1997.
The patent I was talking about was also filed Sept 12, 1997, but it looks like it was orphaned for some reason. (It's patent number 5,960,411 and it's in the references). The abstract and summary are the same (or VERY near) for 5,960,411 and 6,615,226.
BWP
Ignore the abstract and the summary (they are either the same or very close to their 1999 patent).
The claims are what matters and they do NOT match up with the abstract/summary. The claims talk about a system that will combine orders shipping to the same addresses from same customer.
BWP
Seems to me they have just patented cookies.
The problem is that the abstract and summary do not really count. It is the specific claims that do. The abstract is the same as their 1999 patent and the summary is about 95% the same. The claims on the otherhand are different.
Either the patent office had a mix up, or they used the same application with slight mods...:)
BWP
From the claims, it covers just about ANY shopping cart that is intelligent enough to combine orders.
And the abstract/summary, and the claims do not seem to match up. The abstract/summary talk about one-click and the claims talk about an intelligent order combining system. The abstract is the same as the 1999 patent by Hartman.
There are plenty of backend systems that will combine orders. Does this only cover systems that do it all in the frontend?
BWP
I have a few Marble FX's from a few years ago - best trackball I ever played with (so I bought a few spare ones).
As far as I'm concerned, these are the BEST. Large marble ball (works great for photo work), ergonomic design and works fine under X. I'm down to one spare and since my wife and I both love the things I need to find more of them. I wish I knew why logitech dropped them...:(
BWP
FreeBSD 1.0 cannot be run unless you have a Unix license. I'm not sure what this would cost you, but SCO is selling licenses to Linux users for $699.00, so my guess is about that. However you need to ask SCO, as they are the only ones legally selling such a license.
For Freebsd 2.0 the requirement of a Unix license was eliminated (there were only 7 files to re-implement).
I belive that requirement is no longer valid. It was based on the licensing of V7/32V Unix which was released by Caldera in January 2002. A later release put it under the original BSD license. Here is a Groklaw article talking about the way SCO tried to later say it was on for the 16bit code and non-commericial.
Since the bits of 1.X that were tainted are now release under a BSD license, well..... Thats why you can once again get FreeBSD 1.X if you look around enough.
BWP
I don't know about you, but the thought of someone adding that many core features at one time scares me. They should have renamed it and called it version 1.0, because thats what it really is....
Plus, are they following the ANSI standards for the features that have them? If so, they are going to break compatiability with prior versions.
I would wait until atleast version 5.1 before even thinking about using it.
BWP
If he is a licenced ham radio operator, I doubt the amplifier is using is in any way "illegal".
I'm not sure what the maximum power output is in the United States, but here in Sweden, a licenced radio amateur operator can put out up to 1 kW or so without any additional license.
US hams (except holders of the soon to extinct novice license) are limited to 1500 watts almost everywhere except for a couple of special purpose areas. That is input to the antenna, which means if I want I can pump 1500 watts into a 9db antenna and get 12000 watts out... good for moon bounce.
As far as CB radios go, ANY amplifier is illegal, thats why Hams can not buy a 10 meter amp off the shelf (unless they are ancient!). If someone is selling an amp that is usable in the 11/10 meter band to a non-ham, they can also get hit with that $10,000 fine. Type accepted 10 meter amps have not been produced in years.
BWP
The most common rate (afaik) is 9k6
9600 is still the most common down on 2 meters, but get above 70 cm (aka 440Mhz), then 56k is not unheard of for back haul networks.
Not counting the fact that faster rates are not legal at 2 meters, you also have to take into account that a higher baud rate needs a higher bandwidth, and the bands are too small. At 2.4 and 5Ghz, I've seen people run a Megabit. As a matter of fact, there is a company out of austrialia(sp) that will sell hams wifi cards, tuned to the ham bands (and that we can change tuning on via software (which is illegal except for hams)), that combined with a 5+ watt amp and a decent dish will go thirty miles if you have line of sight.
BWP
From the specs page:
Operating frequency: 230-450 Mhz
What's that in the middle of?
Military alocations.
That is almost the exact freqs of the WSC-3's I used to work on when I was in the Navy...
BWP
GPL licenses apply to the distribution of derivatives, not products that happen to use a GPL'd service.
The problem is always, is the access library GPL or LGPL? If your access library is GPL, you can't write a C app to access the DB without putting it under the GPL.
BWP
Umm, no. The Itanium sucks at these kinds of tasks due to a long pipe line. Read this post for more info.
But a 5 times speed increase for me running a machine with a load with ATA disks?
If the pipeline clears/stalls are that bad (even with their massive L3 cache (1.5MB to 9MB), it looks like the Itaniums are really only good for number crunching and not much else.
BWP
While FreeBSD is a great OS/kernel, it doesn't scale as well as Linux, end of story.
Well I hope the article is wrong concerning how long it took to compile that kernel using a single processor Itanium 2...19 min?
Thu Jan 13 03:22:14 MST 2005
Thu Jan 13 03:41:52 MST 2005
make buildworld = 19.75 min
Tue Jan 18 21:32:08 MST 2005
Tue Jan 18 21:35:54 MST 2005
make buildkernel = 4 min
That is 25 min to compleatly rebuild FreeBSD 4.11 from source.
This is a P4 2.55 (no HTT) with on 1GB ram and PATA disks running FreeBSD 4.11. It was runing an X server, acting as a NAT router for my internal network, DNS server, web server and general purpose workstation (including SetiAtHome active).
It took my 6.0-Current (Sempron 2400+ 512MB/PATA) box 12 min for the kernel with ALL the debugging (aka WITNESS/INVARIANTS/DEBUGGERS) stuff in the compiling kernel.
Even a single processor Itanium 2 should have blown EITHER of my two boxes away.
Maybe they should concentrate on getting good performance from a single processor (which is way more common) before adding more CPUs (walk before running???).
BWP
and oh voice memo recording?
Well the Sprint Treo 600 with the 1.20 update will do this just fine (I've got one.).
They all had the hardware, but until the latest update, the API was not there. From what I've heard they delayed the development to get it out the door.
What pisses me off is that it could do the other two things (voice activated dialing and ring in headset) if they would just produce another update.
BWP
I've "played" with it here.
Still a little rough, but better than what some other systems have (ie nothing).
BWP
Prior to 8.0 you just about had to do that, but with the ability to use gzip to compress your archives, it was not too bad unless you had lots of bytea or blobs in the DB.
But with the advent of Point-in-Time recovery in 8.0 thats changed. With the new utils you can make a dump of the system and just copy it and the WAL files around. Database crash (that is not handled automaticly)? Just load the backup and replay the WAL files to whatever point in time you want them. You can even use partial WAL files.
BWP
So what's this point-in-time recovery and what's it do better?
As I understand it, prior Point-in-Time recovery the WAL files would replay ALL of the transactions they contained, you could not pick were to end them.
With PIT you can tell the system to replay just to a certain point or all the way.
With the new utilities included with PostgreSQL 8.0(now beta) you can also use this as a backup system (it was not easy to do prior to this). Create a backup dump and load it into your backup server. Copy (rsync would work here) the WAL files over to the backup server and replay them as they compleate. When you need the backup, you can (using an included util) replay the last partial WAL file and bring the system up. If I were do this though I would most likely shrink the size of the WAL files from the stock 16MB to something a little smaller (unless your DB was VERY busy...).
BWP
BSD's free resulted in Sun, IBM, HP, Compaq, DEC, and who knows what else distributing their own tweaked, incompatible version of Unix.
Uh???? No, that you would have to lay at the feet of AT&T selling source licenses. Before you could get the BSD tapes, you had to have a AT&T source license. BSD had nothing to do with it. Out of the five names above only two were BSDish.
As for BSD causing incompatiablities, how has the GPL stopped the various Linux distributions from roaming all over the place? Compare Debian to SUSE to RedHat...
BWP
Only hitch is getting ATI drivers working for 3D support (currently you're stuck with 2d and thats it)
Huh? Maybe some of the wild stuff, but my ATI card works just fine in 3D mode. Here are a couple of selected tidbits from my dmesg.boot,XFree86.0.log, and glxinfo.
drm0: ATI Radeon If R250 9000
Chipset: "ATI Radeon 9000/PRO If (AGP/PCI)"
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20020827 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE TCL
It's not one of the top end cards, but for an average workstation (I do 95% programming so...)it works quite well. Here are a couple of specs...
glxgears = 1400 FPS
gloss = 375 fps
fire = 60 fps
geartrain = 200 fps
ray = 67 fps
Nothing to get excited about, but I do have hardware 3D...
BWP
Ok, how about this?
My Treo 600 is cool. It only allows for MIDI ringtones (unless you break out the extra for lightwave, which I've got no use for).
What is uncool is finding a decent MIDI editor so I can create my own. Just want something a little unstandard and not pay through the nose.
BWP
I guess I've been lucky...
I've had my Treo 600 for about 6 weeks now and no lockups/reboots. I've got 20 or 30 third party apps, but almost all of mine are for palm 5.X and that may make the difference.
Since I had never had a palm based system prior to this, I don't miss the pen input (that was a selling point for me...:) )
BWP
Ok you could get a Gig for a million bucks. But the hardware to do all the bank switching (Z80's had a 64k address limit and even then you could only expect a 32k to 48k area to be usable (The other 16k was your OS in a ROM/EPROM)) would cost another half mill...
BWP
Damn,
I was about to write a stinging reply to your message until I actually read the thing...
Continuing your thoughts, maybe we should throw anything concerning politics into there as well. I mean come on, it's a proven fact that 90% of the time, if a politician opens his/her mouth, it is a lie. Do we really want our kids learning how to lie, cheat, steal, etc, etc from the pros?
BWP
For the humor impaired, the 90% figure MIGHT be on the high side (but not by much).