Actually design patents usually rely on visual appearance. Fins on the tail end of a car are the common example of something possibly subject to a design patent. If you make fins on the back of a car of your own design, it wouldn't infringe.
I remember Coke did some "code under the cap" game in the mid 90s when I was being exposed to all the HACKER.TXT files from BBSs and I was young and impressionable. So I decided to wardial the coke codes. They had an 800 number you call and enter codes to see what you won. Surprisingly, after about 30 codes, I hit the code (a code?) that won the grand prize. Now, either it was freak statistics, or the codes just followed some algorithm to determine prizes. In any case, it was cool hearing the phone message that the grand prize winners will hear, but without the winning cap, it was useless information.
The most greatly improved thing is the 3DM linux 3ware RAID management software. It used to be crappy, but now it's good. If you shell out the cash for the official 3ware hot swap drive cages, you can hot swap the drives. They used to claim you could, but the bugs in the 3DM made it almost impossible. Now it is possible to force degradation of the array and take a disk offline that is starting to get a lot of remapped sectors, but no critical errors that force degradation.
Seeing as you are talking about pounds, I'll be assuming you really mean £1,500,000,000,000 (one point five billion pounds) and not the tiny sum of one thousand five hundred million pounds (£1,500,000,000)
Believe it or not, you just described a real scam.
Scammer scams someone, then a while later has a different person contact the scammed person, posing as either a type of law enforcement, or a private non-proift agency for victims, saying that they have recovered some of the money, but they need a security deposit or some such to be able to process the paperwork before the money can be returned.
Man, I used to subscribe to BYTE, in the years before they went down. It really was pretty crappy, a ton of Java hype in every issue. To read BYTE only would give you the idea that by this time, everything but Java would be obselete.
Right before their downfall, they started that slogan, "BYTE: It's not for everyone". I think it was this elitist attitude that did them in more than anything. Their articles often made huge assumptions that you already knew all the late breaking intricacies of Java, even though hot thing in the Java world changed every week or so. By leaving out basic explanations in favor of catering to the relatively small Javaphile group, I think it was suicide.
That's the way we do it with 8 port 3ware ATA RAID. Three hardware RAID5, with software RAID0 tying them together. Performance is excellent for large file storage.
Of course, if it were intended for a database or something like that instead, RAID10 would probably be a better choice.
The block devices in 2.4 kernel can't go over 2TB right now. It's fixed in 2.5, but I don't know if they are going to backport or not.
We have run into this barrier at work several times. With large ATA arrays, it's getting almost trivial to amass 2TB+, so I sure hope this gets fixed post-haste.
You could do it with one 550 Watt Power supply up to about 16 drives or so. Drives really don't suck a whole lot of power except on startup. (16 drives pull about 5-7 amps on 12 V on start, then use very little power on 5 or 12 once they are spun up, I've measured)
The problem is the Y connectors. I can tell you from experience, you really want to use as few Y connectors as possible. They suck. Even the good Belkin ones suck when you chain up 10 of them. There are too many places for potential problems.
You will be constantly cursed with weird drive timeouts if you use too many Ys. My eventual solution was to buy some insulation displacement Molex drive connectors and some spools of 18 guage wire, and make my own power bus. No problems since.
I don't know either since the server is slashdotted, but 3ware makes 8 and 12 channel ATA and SATA RIAD controllers. I highly recommend SATA if you want to put more than 5 or 6 drives in a system, the cabling becomes problematic, and PATA round cables take up too much room on the connector end to use on the tightly spaced headers of a 3ware card. I'd use SATA even if you use PATA drives, just use a converter on the drive side. When SATA drives become more common, you will already be ready.
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And besides that, he was wrong about the only replacement for freon. There are hundreds of various solvents/chemicals that can substitute for freon, with more or less success. Hell, you could even use butane as a refridgerant if you really wanted to.
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While I'm completely for the recommercialization of Hemp in the US, I'd venture to say the highly unstable ozone is a hell of a lot safer in the long run than things like DDT that stick around in the food chain for years and years.
Thanks for you long reply. There is no way I could reply to all of it. Sorry to hear you are losing your job. Regarding the hospital, I am in no way in favor of giving people entitlements for free, especially people that don't even pay taxes.
Just keep in mind, a lot of corporate leaders and big wigs are playing a lot of (fraudulent and illegal) games, at the cost of the population at large. I think you have been aoured on free trade by the way it has been exploited by some in power for their own personal gain.
I'm no more happy with the two major parties in this country as you are. They are all highly corrupt with only a few exceptions. Be careful to lump me in with any "side", because I doubt many of the people in power would consider me on their "side". If I had my way, being in government wouldn't be a highly profitable profession the way it is today.
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Hmm, that is sorta the opposite of my goal. my goal is to have the power and upgradability of a full sized system, but not waste space on a full sized keyboard/monitor/mouse. The system can go under the desk, the KVM components can't.:)
If you don't like that scenario, maybe you should join T.O.R.A.W. [toraw.org].
I glanced over that site and it looks like pure protectionist BS. Let me explain a little basic economics.
Suppose there are two islands, both islands need corn and wheat to eat.
Corn Island people are very good at making corn, but not as good at making wheat, i.e. it takes one worker two days to make 1 unit of wheat on Corn Island, but it takes one worker only one day to make 1 unit of corn on Corn island.
On Wheat Island, the situation is reversed, there it takes one worker one day to make 1 unit of wheat, and two days to make 1 unit of corn.
Now, in this obvious example, it's clear that free trade is a good thing, even though the wheat making workers will lose their jobs on Corn Island, and the corn making workers on Wheat Island will also lose their jobs, if those workers were instead doing what their island was good at, both islands could get a huge benefit through trade.
With hard numbers (a "unit" of corn and wheat are the same value):
Before Free Trade Corn Island: 20 workers making just wheat 10 workers making only corn
Total output: 20 units per day of grains
Wheat Island 20 workers making just corn 10 workers making only wheat
Total output: 20 units per day.
With Free Trade:
Corn island: 30 workers making corn 15 corn units traded with wheat island for wheat
And vice versa on the other island
Total output: 30 units per day per island.
As you can see, a 50% increase in GNP of both islands with the same amount of workers doing the same amount of work!
Now, this is where most people argue that the US is not on parity with 3rd world countries, in fact, we are better at producing things than most 3rd world countries. Even so, free trade still works out as better for everyone, even rich countries!
Suppose US island workers can make 4 corn units per worker per day, and 2 wheat units per worker per day, and also has 30 workers, 10 making wheat and 20 making corn for a GNP of 100 units of grain a day. A very rich country! But they could be richer with free trade.
Lets assume for purposes of argument that Corn island does not exist, and wheat island is at their pre-free-trade production levels.
Suppose US island starts trading with Wheat island. 20 people on US island are freed up to make corn, at a cost of 30 units of corn per day traded to wheat island for wheat. Now US Island can produce 90 units of Corn in addition to the 30 units of wheat traded from Wheat island.
US Island's GNP just went up to 120 units of grain per day, even though their workers are twice as efficient than Wheat islands at making wheat. Wheat island gets the same benefit from free trade as they got in the Corn island example, their GNP is raised to 30.
So even a rich country can benefit from free trade. Yes, people lose jobs, but jobs are created elsewhere. A person's lack of motivation to learn skills that are in demand is not a good reason to destroy the economy with protectionism. Free trade benefits everyone.
This is exactly what I was asking for the other day. I took one look at the video server sitting on the other table in my room, taking up all that space, and wished I could get something in a laptop type form factor that was only a keyboard/monitor/mouse.
VNC/X11/whatever is nice, but every now and then I actually want to sit in front of it and do something, so I have kept monitor/mouse/kb on it. It's also too far across to room to use a cheap KVM, I'd have to get a pricey one that can do extensions over CAT5 or similar.
Do you similarily think that firearms sports or hunting are in the same category? They most definitely are the same skills.
The NRA likes to point out that kids that are trained to use guns safely for sport are drastically less likely to kill someone deliberatly or accidentally.
Sure, just get an empty spray bottle that various cleaners come in, the kind with a trigger. Fill it with rubbing alcohol. Tie a piece of stiff wire around the nozzle part, and leave some wire sticking out. Put a cotton ball on the end of the wire sticking out, and bend the wire so it is in front of the spray of the nozzle, about 3 or 4 inches away. Spray a few times to get the cotton ball wet, light it, and blast away.
I used to use this to kill ants when they would swarm in the yard as a kid. One could probably use it to melt ice too, but alcohol doesn't burn very hot.
As always, if you do this, I take no liability. The whole thing is liable to erupt into a ball of flames in your hand if you aren't careful. I never did it with anything hotter than 70% rubbing alcohol. Note that some fuels will attack the plastic in the bottle and melt it chemically.
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Actually design patents usually rely on visual appearance. Fins on the tail end of a car are the common example of something possibly subject to a design patent. If you make fins on the back of a car of your own design, it wouldn't infringe.
I remember Coke did some "code under the cap" game in the mid 90s when I was being exposed to all the HACKER.TXT files from BBSs and I was young and impressionable. So I decided to wardial the coke codes. They had an 800 number you call and enter codes to see what you won. Surprisingly, after about 30 codes, I hit the code (a code?) that won the grand prize. Now, either it was freak statistics, or the codes just followed some algorithm to determine prizes. In any case, it was cool hearing the phone message that the grand prize winners will hear, but without the winning cap, it was useless information.
I suspect this is similar in implementation.
The hardware RAID5 isn't too bad.
The most greatly improved thing is the 3DM linux 3ware RAID management software. It used to be crappy, but now it's good. If you shell out the cash for the official 3ware hot swap drive cages, you can hot swap the drives. They used to claim you could, but the bugs in the 3DM made it almost impossible. Now it is possible to force degradation of the array and take a disk offline that is starting to get a lot of remapped sectors, but no critical errors that force degradation.
Seeing as you are talking about pounds, I'll be assuming you really mean £1,500,000,000,000 (one point five billion pounds) and not the tiny sum of one thousand five hundred million pounds (£1,500,000,000)
Can you explain this?!?
Believe it or not, you just described a real scam.
Scammer scams someone, then a while later has a different person contact the scammed person, posing as either a type of law enforcement, or a private non-proift agency for victims, saying that they have recovered some of the money, but they need a security deposit or some such to be able to process the paperwork before the money can be returned.
Amazing isn't it?
Well, there are already a couple .mil contributers
.gov:
drivers/char/toshiba.c: * 0xfc10: Andrew Lofthouse
drivers/scsi/ultrastor.h: * Eric Youngdale (eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil).
Quite a few
grep -R "\.gov" * | wc -l
69
Although a lot of those hits are repeated hits for Donald Becker at his NASA address.
I also seem to recall some NSA address in some network driver code, but I can't seem to find that anymore.
Joker.com is good.
So they discovered ANSI bombs over again.
Simple! Just tell Linux not to load ANSI.SYS, problem solved!
Yeah, 3ware fully supports Linux. Their 12 channel cards are kinda expensive, but it all works out still a lot cheaper than SCSI.
Man, I used to subscribe to BYTE, in the years before they went down. It really was pretty crappy, a ton of Java hype in every issue. To read BYTE only would give you the idea that by this time, everything but Java would be obselete.
Right before their downfall, they started that slogan, "BYTE: It's not for everyone". I think it was this elitist attitude that did them in more than anything. Their articles often made huge assumptions that you already knew all the late breaking intricacies of Java, even though hot thing in the Java world changed every week or so. By leaving out basic explanations in favor of catering to the relatively small Javaphile group, I think it was suicide.
That's the way we do it with 8 port 3ware ATA RAID. Three hardware RAID5, with software RAID0 tying them together. Performance is excellent for large file storage.
Of course, if it were intended for a database or something like that instead, RAID10 would probably be a better choice.
The block devices in 2.4 kernel can't go over 2TB right now. It's fixed in 2.5, but I don't know if they are going to backport or not.
We have run into this barrier at work several times. With large ATA arrays, it's getting almost trivial to amass 2TB+, so I sure hope this gets fixed post-haste.
You could do it with one 550 Watt Power supply up to about 16 drives or so. Drives really don't suck a whole lot of power except on startup. (16 drives pull about 5-7 amps on 12 V on start, then use very little power on 5 or 12 once they are spun up, I've measured)
The problem is the Y connectors. I can tell you from experience, you really want to use as few Y connectors as possible. They suck. Even the good Belkin ones suck when you chain up 10 of them. There are too many places for potential problems.
You will be constantly cursed with weird drive timeouts if you use too many Ys. My eventual solution was to buy some insulation displacement Molex drive connectors and some spools of 18 guage wire, and make my own power bus. No problems since.
I don't know either since the server is slashdotted, but 3ware makes 8 and 12 channel ATA and SATA RIAD controllers. I highly recommend SATA if you want to put more than 5 or 6 drives in a system, the cabling becomes problematic, and PATA round cables take up too much room on the connector end to use on the tightly spaced headers of a 3ware card. I'd use SATA even if you use PATA drives, just use a converter on the drive side. When SATA drives become more common, you will already be ready.
And besides that, he was wrong about the only replacement for freon. There are hundreds of various solvents/chemicals that can substitute for freon, with more or less success. Hell, you could even use butane as a refridgerant if you really wanted to.
While I'm completely for the recommercialization of Hemp in the US, I'd venture to say the highly unstable ozone is a hell of a lot safer in the long run than things like DDT that stick around in the food chain for years and years.
Then the interesting conclusion, polluted areas should have less problems with insects and insect bourne disease? Disease in general?
Thanks for you long reply. There is no way I could reply to all of it. Sorry to hear you are losing your job. Regarding the hospital, I am in no way in favor of giving people entitlements for free, especially people that don't even pay taxes.
Just keep in mind, a lot of corporate leaders and big wigs are playing a lot of (fraudulent and illegal) games, at the cost of the population at large. I think you have been aoured on free trade by the way it has been exploited by some in power for their own personal gain.
I'm no more happy with the two major parties in this country as you are. They are all highly corrupt with only a few exceptions. Be careful to lump me in with any "side", because I doubt many of the people in power would consider me on their "side". If I had my way, being in government wouldn't be a highly profitable profession the way it is today.
Hmm, that is sorta the opposite of my goal. my goal is to have the power and upgradability of a full sized system, but not waste space on a full sized keyboard/monitor/mouse. The system can go under the desk, the KVM components can't. :)
If you don't like that scenario, maybe you should join T.O.R.A.W. [toraw.org].
I glanced over that site and it looks like pure protectionist BS. Let me explain a little basic economics.
Suppose there are two islands, both islands need corn and wheat to eat.
Corn Island people are very good at making corn, but not as good at making wheat, i.e. it takes one worker two days to make 1 unit of wheat on Corn Island, but it takes one worker only one day to make 1 unit of corn on Corn island.
On Wheat Island, the situation is reversed, there it takes one worker one day to make 1 unit of wheat, and two days to make 1 unit of corn.
Now, in this obvious example, it's clear that free trade is a good thing, even though the wheat making workers will lose their jobs on Corn Island, and the corn making workers on Wheat Island will also lose their jobs, if those workers were instead doing what their island was good at, both islands could get a huge benefit through trade.
With hard numbers (a "unit" of corn and wheat are the same value):
Before Free Trade
Corn Island:
20 workers making just wheat
10 workers making only corn
Total output: 20 units per day of grains
Wheat Island
20 workers making just corn
10 workers making only wheat
Total output: 20 units per day.
With Free Trade:
Corn island:
30 workers making corn
15 corn units traded with wheat island for wheat
And vice versa on the other island
Total output: 30 units per day per island.
As you can see, a 50% increase in GNP of both islands with the same amount of workers doing the same amount of work!
Now, this is where most people argue that the US is not on parity with 3rd world countries, in fact, we are better at producing things than most 3rd world countries. Even so, free trade still works out as better for everyone, even rich countries!
Suppose US island workers can make 4 corn units per worker per day, and 2 wheat units per worker per day, and also has 30 workers, 10 making wheat and 20 making corn for a GNP of 100 units of grain a day. A very rich country! But they could be richer with free trade.
Lets assume for purposes of argument that Corn island does not exist, and wheat island is at their pre-free-trade production levels.
Suppose US island starts trading with Wheat island. 20 people on US island are freed up to make corn, at a cost of 30 units of corn per day traded to wheat island for wheat. Now US Island can produce 90 units of Corn in addition to the 30 units of wheat traded from Wheat island.
US Island's GNP just went up to 120 units of grain per day, even though their workers are twice as efficient than Wheat islands at making wheat. Wheat island gets the same benefit from free trade as they got in the Corn island example, their GNP is raised to 30.
So even a rich country can benefit from free trade. Yes, people lose jobs, but jobs are created elsewhere. A person's lack of motivation to learn skills that are in demand is not a good reason to destroy the economy with protectionism. Free trade benefits everyone.
This is exactly what I was asking for the other day. I took one look at the video server sitting on the other table in my room, taking up all that space, and wished I could get something in a laptop type form factor that was only a keyboard/monitor/mouse.
VNC/X11/whatever is nice, but every now and then I actually want to sit in front of it and do something, so I have kept monitor/mouse/kb on it. It's also too far across to room to use a cheap KVM, I'd have to get a pricey one that can do extensions over CAT5 or similar.
The are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright holders listed above i.e., MS.
Do you similarily think that firearms sports or hunting are in the same category? They most definitely are the same skills.
The NRA likes to point out that kids that are trained to use guns safely for sport are drastically less likely to kill someone deliberatly or accidentally.
Sure, just get an empty spray bottle that various cleaners come in, the kind with a trigger. Fill it with rubbing alcohol. Tie a piece of stiff wire around the nozzle part, and leave some wire sticking out. Put a cotton ball on the end of the wire sticking out, and bend the wire so it is in front of the spray of the nozzle, about 3 or 4 inches away. Spray a few times to get the cotton ball wet, light it, and blast away.
I used to use this to kill ants when they would swarm in the yard as a kid. One could probably use it to melt ice too, but alcohol doesn't burn very hot.
As always, if you do this, I take no liability. The whole thing is liable to erupt into a ball of flames in your hand if you aren't careful. I never did it with anything hotter than 70% rubbing alcohol. Note that some fuels will attack the plastic in the bottle and melt it chemically.
I think you are parsing that wrong.
[The BSA] states, under penalty of perjury, that it is authorized to act in this matter on behalf of the copyright owners listed.
Seperate clause from the first half, I believe.