But this gives them a monopoly. If they have the patent on a business, they have the monopoly and can stop everyone else from competeing
I think the assumption that everyone is making is that NetFlix will use their patent to prevent competitors from entering their market space. If the folks at NetFlix are smart, they will license their patent to WalMart at a price that both parties agree on.
I wish you'd come speak to the Raleigh-Durham transit authority. They plan to put in a regional rail system that: 1) Doesn't go to the airport 2) Doesn't go to any of the large shopping centers 3) Only goes to one of the local universities (NC State) and will not serve the original purpose of getting people out of their cars.
They have this idea that it's for low-income people, when in fact it should be for everyone to use. Soccer moms should be able to load their kids on the train and send them to school, and the kids ought to be able to ride to the county library afterwards to do homework research. Mom and/or Dad ought to be able to ride it to work and for shopping. If someone has to fly to New York, they ought to be able to ride it to the airport without changing to a stupid bus.
OK, I'll stop ranting now about their spending $700 million on this turkey.
The NT kernel is extremely stable. Typically, drivers are what bring a 2K/XP/server system down. In fact, that is all I've ever seen bring a system down.
When Microsoft moved the video drivers into the kernel in NT 4.0, I knew they couldn't resist the urge to pile everything into it. Now I hear that in Windows 2003 Server the HTTP server (IIS) has it's main listener in the kernel. A Bad Precedent, IMO.
But do you want to have to pay a lawyer $500 to transfer a domain? And what about all the (as yet) unclaimed domains? When Kremen first registered sex.com, it was unclaimed territory, much like when the West was settled -- you arrived with your wagon and set up house. Eventually everything got surveyed, deeded, etc. But we're not to that point in domains (and I doubt we ever will be), as you can always tack another few letters onto an existing domain name to create a new one (frightening example: sexwithhillary.com).
So there is a real need for a central registrar to record purchase of previously unclaimed domains. Perhaps this registrar ought to issue a paper document which gets recorded at the local court house and thus becomes legal virtual property?
For those reporters out there who will write stories about this for "joe consumer":
The "g" in 802.11g stands for "gamma", and no, the IEEE did not skip over proposals 802.11c, d, e, & f before settling on "g".
Rather, the bombing she survived occurred at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, 20 years before.
I happened to be at Rammstein the day after the bombing mentioned. The transmission from the car got blown over the top of a four-story building (other parts didn't quite make it through the building). Quite a powerful bomb that killed and hurt many people. I think it eventually got pinned on the Red Army Faction.
The fun part was I was returning a Siemens teletype to the maintenance depot there, and the other guy in the VW pickup with me had forgotten his military ID (he had left it in his field jacket back at our base). So here we are pulling up to the main gate with this huge wooden crate in the back, and only one of us has any ID. We were lucky they didn't strip search us on the spot.
Perhaps they're looking forward to every car having it's own IP address (and NAT for addressing the multiple computer networks within the car). Before you scoff, recall that the majority of Mercedes sold come with their telematics system (Tele Aid) that can do remote diagnosis of car problems (besides the usual opening of locked doors, track the vehicles location, etc), which implies network connectivity.
I am grateful to the USAF for keeping me out of the country while this turkey was on. Please, let it stay in the can, along with "Logan's Run : The Series" and "Battlestar Galactica".
If you're going to watch a cheesy sci-fi series, why not watch The Doctor?
Yes - a lack of experience with the new format caused the recording engineers to mis-apply the EQ curve to master tapes destined to be stamped out as CDs. This was in the early 80's (The Sony CDP-101, worlds first consumer CD player, came out in 1983 -- still have mine!). Things got straightened out by 1988 or so.
Like the other poster said, Dire Straits Brothers in Arms was one of the very first CDs to be sold as "DDD" (Digital recording, Digital Mastering, and Digital Transfer), and the sound quality was outstanding.
I still have the early edition (1985 or so) of Pink Floyd The Wall, and honestly, listening to it via headphones is pretty painful. OTOH, my Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab release of Rush Moving Pictures is excellent -- even though it's also analog (I can really hear Neil on drums, whereas in the plebian aluminum release he's way off in the muddy background). A lot depends on the care with which the CD was produced. Many of the early CD releases suffered from the "shovelware" effect as the format took off.
But the main problem I have with it is that it's ugly. No sense of style, like Hoover Dam, with it's Art Deco influence. Right now, it looks like your typical Communist-era construction - big for bigness sake, and clunky. Like the apartment blocks built by the Soviets. How can China be proud of something so unattractive?
The U.S. and Europe are sitting pretty for now, because these regions grabbed most IP addresses. The Americans, for example, own 70 percent of all addresses, she said.
Grabbed? We invented it.
But seriously, upgrading to IPv6 is the answer, so I don't understand the fuss. If TimeWarner did IPv6 I'd start using it at home to be a good net citizen.
I was going to make a joke about this material now being available online at www.monkeyblog.com, but it looks like that domain actually exists and is in regular use.
Card catalogs and electronic indexes are both worthless when faced with one of my former roommate's research technique. He would plagiarize from a book or journal, then intentially misfile it on another floor so he wouldn't get caught.
You'd probably want that anyway. If all of a sudden, ten thousand people want to know the temperature in your backyard, an embedded CPU & webserver won't be able to keep up (slashdot effect on a micro scale). So it'd be better to have an n-tier sensor data reporting system that can scale as/when needed.
Which is not to say that the Sensor ML spec would be *bad* for that -- just that there are other issues besides the communications protocol to worry about.
I had a similar problem - the stock fan RPM sensor would fail intermittantly. It'd be running fine at 4800 rpm, and then drop to zero for a few seconds, and then indicate 4800 rpm again. Since it was so random, there's no way I would expect them to duplicate the problem (assuming they even tried), plus, I wanted lower temps anyway. So I replaced the stock unit with a Vantec, and got lower noise levels as a side benefit.
Slashdot Mirror
PC Load Letter?
What the fuck does that mean?
All the good names will be taken before I can get in there. I'll be stuck with "{D83D60E3-229F-4660-8DD0-28B629EEDCDA}"
Hmmm. I wonder if I can play a droid? Nahhh, that'd violate the "Al Gore" rule.
Chip H.
But this gives them a monopoly. If they have the patent on a business, they have the monopoly and can stop everyone else from competeing
I think the assumption that everyone is making is that NetFlix will use their patent to prevent competitors from entering their market space. If the folks at NetFlix are smart, they will license their patent to WalMart at a price that both parties agree on.
Chip H.
I wish you'd come speak to the Raleigh-Durham transit authority. They plan to put in a regional rail system that: 1) Doesn't go to the airport 2) Doesn't go to any of the large shopping centers 3) Only goes to one of the local universities (NC State) and will not serve the original purpose of getting people out of their cars.
They have this idea that it's for low-income people, when in fact it should be for everyone to use. Soccer moms should be able to load their kids on the train and send them to school, and the kids ought to be able to ride to the county library afterwards to do homework research. Mom and/or Dad ought to be able to ride it to work and for shopping. If someone has to fly to New York, they ought to be able to ride it to the airport without changing to a stupid bus.
OK, I'll stop ranting now about their spending $700 million on this turkey.
Remember Stephen King's Langoliers? The movie had Pac-Man creatures that cleaned up after time moved on.
The mysterious traffic is nothing more than the Langoliers cleaning up dropped packets.
The NT kernel is extremely stable. Typically, drivers are what bring a 2K/XP/server system down. In fact, that is all I've ever seen bring a system down.
When Microsoft moved the video drivers into the kernel in NT 4.0, I knew they couldn't resist the urge to pile everything into it. Now I hear that in Windows 2003 Server the HTTP server (IIS) has it's main listener in the kernel. A Bad Precedent, IMO.
But do you want to have to pay a lawyer $500 to transfer a domain? And what about all the (as yet) unclaimed domains? When Kremen first registered sex.com, it was unclaimed territory, much like when the West was settled -- you arrived with your wagon and set up house. Eventually everything got surveyed, deeded, etc. But we're not to that point in domains (and I doubt we ever will be), as you can always tack another few letters onto an existing domain name to create a new one (frightening example: sexwithhillary.com).
So there is a real need for a central registrar to record purchase of previously unclaimed domains. Perhaps this registrar ought to issue a paper document which gets recorded at the local court house and thus becomes legal virtual property?
Chip H.
For those reporters out there who will write stories about this for "joe consumer":
The "g" in 802.11g stands for "gamma", and no, the IEEE did not skip over proposals 802.11c, d, e, & f before settling on "g".
Chip H.
Rather, the bombing she survived occurred at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, 20 years before.
I happened to be at Rammstein the day after the bombing mentioned. The transmission from the car got blown over the top of a four-story building (other parts didn't quite make it through the building). Quite a powerful bomb that killed and hurt many people. I think it eventually got pinned on the Red Army Faction.
The fun part was I was returning a Siemens teletype to the maintenance depot there, and the other guy in the VW pickup with me had forgotten his military ID (he had left it in his field jacket back at our base). So here we are pulling up to the main gate with this huge wooden crate in the back, and only one of us has any ID. We were lucky they didn't strip search us on the spot.
Chip H.
Perhaps they're looking forward to every car having it's own IP address (and NAT for addressing the multiple computer networks within the car). Before you scoff, recall that the majority of Mercedes sold come with their telematics system (Tele Aid) that can do remote diagnosis of car problems (besides the usual opening of locked doors, track the vehicles location, etc), which implies network connectivity.
Chip H.
I am grateful to the USAF for keeping me out of the country while this turkey was on. Please, let it stay in the can, along with "Logan's Run : The Series" and "Battlestar Galactica".
If you're going to watch a cheesy sci-fi series, why not watch The Doctor?
Chip H.
When you Rot13 it, it's really:
8PAO5 D8M4E
Now, isn't that easier to remember?
Chip H.
Yes - a lack of experience with the new format caused the recording engineers to mis-apply the EQ curve to master tapes destined to be stamped out as CDs. This was in the early 80's (The Sony CDP-101, worlds first consumer CD player, came out in 1983 -- still have mine!). Things got straightened out by 1988 or so.
Chip H.
Like the other poster said, Dire Straits Brothers in Arms was one of the very first CDs to be sold as "DDD" (Digital recording, Digital Mastering, and Digital Transfer), and the sound quality was outstanding.
I still have the early edition (1985 or so) of Pink Floyd The Wall, and honestly, listening to it via headphones is pretty painful. OTOH, my Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab release of Rush Moving Pictures is excellent -- even though it's also analog (I can really hear Neil on drums, whereas in the plebian aluminum release he's way off in the muddy background). A lot depends on the care with which the CD was produced. Many of the early CD releases suffered from the "shovelware" effect as the format took off.
Chip H.
Yes, it's big... huge in fact.
But the main problem I have with it is that it's ugly. No sense of style, like Hoover Dam, with it's Art Deco influence. Right now, it looks like your typical Communist-era construction - big for bigness sake, and clunky. Like the apartment blocks built by the Soviets. How can China be proud of something so unattractive?
The U.S. and Europe are sitting pretty for now, because these regions grabbed most IP addresses. The Americans, for example, own 70 percent of all addresses, she said.
Grabbed? We invented it.
But seriously, upgrading to IPv6 is the answer, so I don't understand the fuss. If TimeWarner did IPv6 I'd start using it at home to be a good net citizen.
Chip H.
Someone please let them know they're 56 days late for their April Fools RFC.
Uhh, Steve, have you seen my black hole? I left it right here, where the desk used to be.
I always thought it was because the powerful stripper lobby didn't like being pelted with dollar coins.
No, that's why we still print the $2 bill.
By the way, Kandye said you're a cheapskate.
action 30pc, comedy 17pc, good v evil 13pc, love/sex/romance 12pc, special effects 10pc, plot 10pc and music 8pc
George forgot that 10% plot requirement.
Chip H.
I was going to make a joke about this material now being available online at www.monkeyblog.com, but it looks like that domain actually exists and is in regular use.
The Internet is stranger than fiction, sometimes.
Chip H.
The new owner (if any) may acquire the company, but will they get Bill Joy as part of the deal?
Chip H.
Card catalogs and electronic indexes are both worthless when faced with one of my former roommate's research technique. He would plagiarize from a book or journal, then intentially misfile it on another floor so he wouldn't get caught.
Now, if each book had had a RFID chip in it...
Chip H.
You'd probably want that anyway. If all of a sudden, ten thousand people want to know the temperature in your backyard, an embedded CPU & webserver won't be able to keep up (slashdot effect on a micro scale). So it'd be better to have an n-tier sensor data reporting system that can scale as/when needed.
Which is not to say that the Sensor ML spec would be *bad* for that -- just that there are other issues besides the communications protocol to worry about.
Chip H.
I had a similar problem - the stock fan RPM sensor would fail intermittantly. It'd be running fine at 4800 rpm, and then drop to zero for a few seconds, and then indicate 4800 rpm again. Since it was so random, there's no way I would expect them to duplicate the problem (assuming they even tried), plus, I wanted lower temps anyway. So I replaced the stock unit with a Vantec, and got lower noise levels as a side benefit.
Chip H.