I mean the first part of Sci-Fi is Sci, i.e. SCIENCE, not scam artist psychic mumbo jumbo bullshit.
Shit like that was a primary reason I quit watching Sci-Fi... that and they pushed Exposure into an after-midnight time slot... WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY SMOKING!?!?
You are correct, MF is 300khz to 3mhz. HF is 3-30Mhz.
Lightning Rod also was slightly inaccurate, in that "microwave" is more of a slang term, there is the three letter abbreviation "SHF" for super high frequency.
If you ever lived near a big transmitter you would know. Anything that transmits raises the "RF Floor" of the surrounding area. Things like front end overload are probably not an issue with these UWB transmitters, but a loud signal (near field) on any frequency could easily make it harder to pick up weak signals, even if they are seperated by many Mhz.
This isn't offtopic, it's an important point. News sites should not play a game of "gossip" reporting hearsay. Attribution should be given to the original writer.
Well, I admit you are more accurate than I, but the fact remains, this has nothing to do with the escape key, at least the way it is used in modern programming.
Wouldn't that be like coming up with the idea for toothed gears and claiming that bicycles could not be patented because of prior art?
Is that any more ludricrous than these stupid "submarine patents" (as they are called in IP circles)?
I think it's totally broken that patents can lie dormant, and even be amended, in hope that eventually someone will make a lot of money doing something similar to the patent. Patents have even lie dormant for up to 30 years while the holder quietly waited for someone to make money doing something similar to what the patent said, before finalizing the process and actually getting the patent.
This guy is just trying to get attention. Like the article noted, his claim is not likely to have much effect on the actual case. He is just using his position to bring attention to the matter, and hopefully provoke rational debate about how the patent system is broken as it applies to software.
Those kinds of escapes, the ones that are used to within normal text to denote something to be handled non-literally. In other words, he is actually claiming that HTML uses escape sequences < and > to denote special handling of hyperlinks, same with the ampersand escaped characters, like I just used.
The Illuminati got to him. Through their cooperation with the Grays, and the secret rich elite, they have pressured Linus into compliance. They hate MS as much as we do, after all MS is a threat to their power.
OK, so I read the article, at least most of it before the server became really laggy.
MS seems so fickle. It's like they keep developing tons of different "cool" things, and never make any of them very good, and keep making the same critical mistakes. ActiveX, COM, DAO, ADO,.NET.... All these really neat technologies, always messed up by MS and their tunnel vision.
ActiveX would dominate the Internet right now, if only it were an open standard. COM is neat and all, but only if you never want to run on anything but Windows.
By wasting their time constantly trying to force everyone else out of the market with closed standards, they gave up the chance to have their standards dominate the world.
This is why I think Mono is dangerous. Suppose we have support on Linux/BSD/Whatever for.NET, it really gives.NET a chance to get a foothold as an "open" standard, allowing MS the chance to later on embrace and extend their own standards
I wouldn't be very surprised if MS was really behind Mono in some way, maybe they finally did learn from their mistakes. I don't make deals with the devil, and neither should anyone else that values their freedom.
You are missing the point, it's a major design flaw, and it's following a MS "standard" of trying to blur the web and the local file system, a standard based on fudging it, rather than making sense.
People whizzing around thoughtlessly on twowheeled machines with more distracting machines attached to their faces, paying little attention to each other,
There's no freedom, you must accept God to complete the program successfully. You must oftentimes accept God so you don't go to jail, if you are court ordered to complete the program.
How again is that freedom?
BTW- About my email, try looking up irony in the dictionary.
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The world's first microdot, a document shrunken down to a tiny point, is also on display. It dates back to 1852.
Wow, and here I was thinking that Hoffman didn't invent LSD until 1943.
Lexx has a lot of subtle jokes... you may not catch them all if you just casually watch it, but they are all pretty hilarious.
Yeah, How the fuck is John Edwards sci-fi?
I mean the first part of Sci-Fi is Sci, i.e. SCIENCE, not scam artist psychic mumbo jumbo bullshit.
Shit like that was a primary reason I quit watching Sci-Fi... that and they pushed Exposure into an after-midnight time slot... WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY SMOKING!?!?
UWB does have to do with data communications, it's mostly proposed for use like something to replace 802.11b or bluetooth.
You are correct, MF is 300khz to 3mhz. HF is 3-30Mhz.
Lightning Rod also was slightly inaccurate, in that "microwave" is more of a slang term, there is the three letter abbreviation "SHF" for super high frequency.
If you ever lived near a big transmitter you would know. Anything that transmits raises the "RF Floor" of the surrounding area. Things like front end overload are probably not an issue with these UWB transmitters, but a loud signal (near field) on any frequency could easily make it harder to pick up weak signals, even if they are seperated by many Mhz.
This isn't offtopic, it's an important point. News sites should not play a game of "gossip" reporting hearsay. Attribution should be given to the original writer.
This is totally false.
I guess you somehow equate computer processors with radio transcievers?
Well, I admit you are more accurate than I, but the fact remains, this has nothing to do with the escape key, at least the way it is used in modern programming.
Wouldn't that be like coming up with the idea for toothed gears and claiming that bicycles could not be patented because of prior art?
Is that any more ludricrous than these stupid "submarine patents" (as they are called in IP circles)?
I think it's totally broken that patents can lie dormant, and even be amended, in hope that eventually someone will make a lot of money doing something similar to the patent. Patents have even lie dormant for up to 30 years while the holder quietly waited for someone to make money doing something similar to what the patent said, before finalizing the process and actually getting the patent.
This guy is just trying to get attention. Like the article noted, his claim is not likely to have much effect on the actual case. He is just using his position to bring attention to the matter, and hopefully provoke rational debate about how the patent system is broken as it applies to software.
And so does wired.
If I read it right, he invented the escape sequence. Like in a shell when you type
rm Stupid\ File\ that\ a\ window\$ lu\$er created.mp3
Those kinds of escapes, the ones that are used to within normal text to denote something to be handled non-literally. In other words, he is actually claiming that HTML uses escape sequences < and > to denote special handling of hyperlinks, same with the ampersand escaped characters, like I just used.
The escape key has nothing to do with this.
Then call it version 5.0 and be happy.
Numbers are meaningless when everyone has their own numbering schemes.
The Illuminati got to him. Through their cooperation with the Grays, and the secret rich elite, they have pressured Linus into compliance. They hate MS as much as we do, after all MS is a threat to their power.
Try this FAQ
I'm a happy Alsa user so this looks like a good thing.
/. editors actually USED linux, much less knew how to compile their own kernels! Go Chris!
I didn't know any of the
You work for MS, don't you? Or maybe you develop Windows apps all day? Come clean!
MS seems so fickle. It's like they keep developing tons of different "cool" things, and never make any of them very good, and keep making the same critical mistakes. ActiveX, COM, DAO, ADO,
ActiveX would dominate the Internet right now, if only it were an open standard. COM is neat and all, but only if you never want to run on anything but Windows.
By wasting their time constantly trying to force everyone else out of the market with closed standards, they gave up the chance to have their standards dominate the world.
This is why I think Mono is dangerous. Suppose we have support on Linux/BSD/Whatever for .NET, it really gives .NET a chance to get a foothold as an "open" standard, allowing MS the chance to later on embrace and extend their own standards
I wouldn't be very surprised if MS was really behind Mono in some way, maybe they finally did learn from their mistakes. I don't make deals with the devil, and neither should anyone else that values their freedom.
You are missing the point, it's a major design flaw, and it's following a MS "standard" of trying to blur the web and the local file system, a standard based on fudging it, rather than making sense.
People whizzing around thoughtlessly on twowheeled machines with more distracting machines attached to their faces, paying little attention to each other,
We are borg. We just don't know it yet.
Yeah, it would swing back and forth in the wind and break probably. You'd have to have some serious protection against swinging.
I'd send them a check for the prorated amount on a cylinder several mm across and as long as their property. Shouldn't be more than $1 or 2.
There's no freedom, you must accept God to complete the program successfully. You must oftentimes accept God so you don't go to jail, if you are court ordered to complete the program.
How again is that freedom?
BTW- About my email, try looking up irony in the dictionary.
If it's off, then that part of the EULA is pretty much moot (until you turn it back on again).
Or until THEY turn it back on. The EULA said you authorized them to auto-update your computer after all.
Your sig is actually the chant that Alcoholics Anonymous uses, in condensed form.
I don't know if you want to be associated with a brainwashing religious cult organization that courts order people into.
I was wrong, try $2600 for just the CPU!