The Trek Communicators just kinda get there with no infrastuctore.
There was most certainly infrastructure for long-distance communication. There were several references to communication arrays, the most notible being Epsilon 9 from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
And needs to be taken off the (supposed) lifesupport that has Enterprise crawling along as a mere shadow of TOS. It needs to be killed dead, and left so until Brennan, Braga, and Co. at Paramount who chronically Do Not Get IT are also dead.
Then we can maybe consider a glorious resurrection.
Eye movement studies that I will discuss shortly indicate that there are three zones of visual identification. Readers collect information from all three zones during the span of a fixation. Closest to the fixation point is where word recognition takes place. This zone is usually large enough to capture the word being fixated, and often includes smaller function words directly to the right of the fixated word. The next zone extends a few letters past the word recognition zone, and readers gather preliminary information about the next letters in this zone. The final zone extends out to 15 letters past the fixation point. Information gathered out this far is used to identify the length of upcoming words and to identify the best location for the next fixation point
Soldiers voting via absentee ballot (in the US, at least) goes back to the election of 1864. For over 100 years, this was the only example of a country successfully holding an election during a civil war.
My brother is over in Iraq right now. Most of them aren't pissed that they are there. If anything, they are pissed because there's no exit strategy, and because no matter when they leave--next year or the next decade--there's going to be one hell of a bloody civil war with Iran, Syria, Russia, China, and God only knows what other nations involved.
That's too bad. I'm an '86 DeVry grad (Columbus, OH). My entire BSCIS cost about what a year and a half at Ohio State would have run me. I've been continuously employed in IT for 18 years now. And while I've not hit a six figure salary yet, I cannot complain. I made the jump from programming to Unix admin in '98; not only did I improve my salary, I got out of the bulk of the Y2K mess.
Never mind that Microsoft has been promising its "innovative" native database/filesystem (copying an idea from IBM's hugely successful OS/400) for more than ten years now. Anybody remember Cairo?"
The seamless filesystem-in-a-database was created in the Multi-Valued DB structure in the mid-60's and release as the the Pick OS. It is still sold by Raining Data and runs on Windows, Unix, and Linux.
Yes medicare/medicade and social security should be removed from the U.S. government. Yes if you as a person did not save enough during your lifetime to take care of yourself, then the rest of America should not have to flip the bill for you. Or better yet all the extra money that you would have earned in that lifetime without the additional taxes on you, you could have invested and been far better off than what is currently provided.
We had that model. And then the Great Depression came and devestated people, including those who had saved for their retirement.
Yes, medicare (and SS and most every other government program) is run like crap. Dispensing with it altogether, however, has already been shown not to be a viable option.
I read the article and part of the patent (skimmed the rest). I obviously missed the "automatically" keyword, my apologies. If BBSs aren't sufficient prior art, how about systems setup with auto call-home modems using async or kermit? Neither of those protcols are proprietary and might meet the criteria.
There's enough prior art from the BBSs of the late 70s through the 90s. Hardware manufacturers, e.g., Seagate, would have their own BBS from which drivers and patches could be downloaded. Sure, it was dial-up, but it meets the requirements of being networked, menu-driven, with user-selectable updates. Prior art should kill this dead, followed by obviousness stomping it into the earth for good. I download my security patches from HP using an on-line, menu-driver, user-selectable process too.
There is pleanty to critisize about the government, so lying to support a tenuous point is hardly necessary. The link you supplied discusses abuses foisted on the American public by the Pentagon and a few other government agencies. NASA is mentioned once, in passing, with no direct references or credibile, verifiable sources to support their inclusion. The phrase you chose to reference the link directly implies otherwise.
Yes, Congress has to deal with paying for the outrageousness of the Bush administration's poor decisions regarding Iraq, and personally I think that is the real driving issue, along with the medicare fiasco. The rest is complete supposition. While I don't doubt some find it interesting, there's no need to create contention by being dishonest when we already have more than enough to go around.
causing problems with "major fast food companies" (do they mean pizza deliveries?)
There are times when I refuse to be a demographic. Pizza Hut has not had problems when I call in an order and tell them no, they cannot have my phone number. Dominoes, however, refused to take my order even though I was going to pick it up because they don't deliver to my neighborhood. The drone on the phone not only didn't understand why I wasn't going to give him my unlisted phone number, he was surprisingly rude about it as well. Consequently I've not bought from them since.
Yes, that's the work. I mention the Zeroth law mostly in reference to these folks who were mentioned in the article and who, from reading articles on their website, appear to have ignored it.
There seems to be some deliberate avoidance at the mention, let alone consideration to and inclusion thereof, of what Asimov called "The Zeroth law". There also appears to be a complete glossing-over of the fact that Asmov's robots had the laws hard-wired in their brains, especially by the folks at asimovlaws.com. Not that hard-wiring is the ultimate solution, but does make reprogramming a bit more of a challenge.
how to develop 'algorithmic design concepts distilled from biological systems, or processes.'
Does this mean we can expect the whole dating-and-mating process to be reduced to an algorythm? Does the average slashdotter now have reason to have hope to apsire to procreation?
The most obvious question is who is the cybersquating moron who thinks he can (apparently for the moment) get the legal system to aid and abet in his absconding with a level of control he is contractually--and perhaps legally, depending on how specific ARIN's legal basis for controlling the distribution of IP blocks is--supposed to be prohibited from doing in the first place? Does anyone have access to the actual court documents, either on-line (Lexus anyone?) or in person?
Shirley we have at least one slashdotter in that neck of the woods in Jersey, yes?
You are forgetting that this is the government telling us what we should worry about, and why should they let the facts get in the way of scaring the hell out of as many people as possible.
The rockets I use to launch used 'B' & 'C' engines, and when I got older the big 'D' engines. The rockets that that are being regulated ARE NOT MODEL ROCKETS.
So what, in your opinion, constitutes a MODEL ROCKET?
These people seem to have some interesting ideas, should you need some suggestions.
The chances of an unguided, sub-sonic rocket taking out an airplane is very small
While I can agree that some regulation of large quantities of solid propellant is a prudent thing, the thresholds in the current regs are too extreme, I think. Also, the $25 fee for a limited use permit is an unnecessary and excessive tax for an activity that has miminal impact on public assets.
Seriously, what the hell? You're ignoring the grandparent's entire *point* to focus on two stupid minor software problems?
His point was to not have to do stuff at the
commandline in Linux. I pointed him to a GUI alternative to the example commandline command he gave, which, given that it was his only example, he didn't appear to think all that minor. Given also the importance of keeping updated on patches, I don't think it's all that minor either. The difficulty here for the newbie is not one of proper syntax, but simply the concept of patch updates as descrete events in the first place.
What, exactly, are you trying to contribute to this discussion?
Information. A different perspective. Note that I didn't argue with him or belittle him or try to invalidate his overall point in doing so, thank you.
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The Trek Communicators just kinda get there with no infrastuctore.
There was most certainly infrastructure for long-distance communication. There were several references to communication arrays, the most notible being Epsilon 9 from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
And needs to be taken off the (supposed) lifesupport that has Enterprise crawling along as a mere shadow of TOS. It needs to be killed dead, and left so until Brennan, Braga, and Co. at Paramount who chronically Do Not Get IT are also dead.
Then we can maybe consider a glorious resurrection.
From TFA:
Eye movement studies that I will discuss shortly indicate that there are three zones of visual identification. Readers collect information from all three zones during the span of a fixation. Closest to the fixation point is where word recognition takes place. This zone is usually large enough to capture the word being fixated, and often includes smaller function words directly to the right of the fixated word. The next zone extends a few letters past the word recognition zone, and readers gather preliminary information about the next letters in this zone. The final zone extends out to 15 letters past the fixation point. Information gathered out this far is used to identify the length of upcoming words and to identify the best location for the next fixation point
Time, money, connections, the usual stuff. Besides, it appears that the decision is all but set in stone.
Where and When?
Soldiers voting via absentee ballot (in the US, at least) goes back to the election of 1864. For over 100 years, this was the only example of a country successfully holding an election during a civil war.
My brother is over in Iraq right now. Most of them aren't pissed that they are there. If anything, they are pissed because there's no exit strategy, and because no matter when they leave--next year or the next decade--there's going to be one hell of a bloody civil war with Iran, Syria, Russia, China, and God only knows what other nations involved.
That's too bad. I'm an '86 DeVry grad (Columbus, OH). My entire BSCIS cost about what a year and a half at Ohio State would have run me. I've been continuously employed in IT for 18 years now. And while I've not hit a six figure salary yet, I cannot complain. I made the jump from programming to Unix admin in '98; not only did I improve my salary, I got out of the bulk of the Y2K mess.
I do however like the idea of an intense curriculum, hopefully this does not go the way of the DeVry
Which way would that be? (That's a serious question, not trying to be a smart-ass).
No. You have to remember that the Oscars are a popularity contest, not the results of unbiased literary and theatrical analysis and critisism.
Never mind that Microsoft has been promising its "innovative" native database/filesystem (copying an idea from IBM's hugely successful OS/400) for more than ten years now. Anybody remember Cairo?"
The seamless filesystem-in-a-database was created in the Multi-Valued DB structure in the mid-60's and release as the the Pick OS. It is still sold by Raining Data and runs on Windows, Unix, and Linux.
Yes medicare/medicade and social security should be removed from the U.S. government. Yes if you as a person did not save enough during your lifetime to take care of yourself, then the rest of America should not have to flip the bill for you. Or better yet all the extra money that you would have earned in that lifetime without the additional taxes on you, you could have invested and been far better off than what is currently provided.
We had that model. And then the Great Depression came and devestated people, including those who had saved for their retirement.
Yes, medicare (and SS and most every other government program) is run like crap. Dispensing with it altogether, however, has already been shown not to be a viable option.
I read the article and part of the patent (skimmed the rest). I obviously missed the "automatically" keyword, my apologies. If BBSs aren't sufficient prior art, how about systems setup with auto call-home modems using async or kermit? Neither of those protcols are proprietary and might meet the criteria.
There's enough prior art from the BBSs of the late 70s through the 90s. Hardware manufacturers, e.g., Seagate, would have their own BBS from which drivers and patches could be downloaded. Sure, it was dial-up, but it meets the requirements of being networked, menu-driven, with user-selectable updates. Prior art should kill this dead, followed by obviousness stomping it into the earth for good. I download my security patches from HP using an on-line, menu-driver, user-selectable process too.
NASA's human rights injuries, be damned.
There is pleanty to critisize about the government, so lying to support a tenuous point is hardly necessary. The link you supplied discusses abuses foisted on the American public by the Pentagon and a few other government agencies. NASA is mentioned once, in passing, with no direct references or credibile, verifiable sources to support their inclusion. The phrase you chose to reference the link directly implies otherwise.
Yes, Congress has to deal with paying for the outrageousness of the Bush administration's poor decisions regarding Iraq, and personally I think that is the real driving issue, along with the medicare fiasco. The rest is complete supposition. While I don't doubt some find it interesting, there's no need to create contention by being dishonest when we already have more than enough to go around.
causing problems with "major fast food companies" (do they mean pizza deliveries?)
There are times when I refuse to be a demographic. Pizza Hut has not had problems when I call in an order and tell them no, they cannot have my phone number. Dominoes, however, refused to take my order even though I was going to pick it up because they don't deliver to my neighborhood. The drone on the phone not only didn't understand why I wasn't going to give him my unlisted phone number, he was surprisingly rude about it as well. Consequently I've not bought from them since.
Yes, that's the work. I mention the Zeroth law mostly in reference to these folks who were mentioned in the article and who, from reading articles on their website, appear to have ignored it.
There seems to be some deliberate avoidance at the mention, let alone consideration to and inclusion thereof, of what Asimov called "The Zeroth law". There also appears to be a complete glossing-over of the fact that Asmov's robots had the laws hard-wired in their brains, especially by the folks at asimovlaws.com. Not that hard-wiring is the ultimate solution, but does make reprogramming a bit more of a challenge.
how to develop 'algorithmic design concepts distilled from biological systems, or processes.'
Does this mean we can expect the whole dating-and-mating process to be reduced to an algorythm? Does the average slashdotter now have reason to have hope to apsire to procreation?
The TRO is specifically addressed to NAC, so other ISP's may well be exempt (for now) from having to comply with this.
More discussion from the ISP can be found here
The most obvious question is who is the cybersquating moron who thinks he can (apparently for the moment) get the legal system to aid and abet in his absconding with a level of control he is contractually--and perhaps legally, depending on how specific ARIN's legal basis for controlling the distribution of IP blocks is--supposed to be prohibited from doing in the first place? Does anyone have access to the actual court documents, either on-line (Lexus anyone?) or in person?
Shirley we have at least one slashdotter in that neck of the woods in Jersey, yes?
You are forgetting that this is the government telling us what we should worry about, and why should they let the facts get in the way of scaring the hell out of as many people as possible.
The rockets I use to launch used 'B' & 'C' engines, and when I got older the big 'D' engines. The rockets that that are being regulated ARE NOT MODEL ROCKETS.
So what, in your opinion, constitutes a MODEL ROCKET?
These people seem to have some interesting ideas, should you need some suggestions.
The chances of an unguided, sub-sonic rocket taking out an airplane is very small
While I can agree that some regulation of large quantities of solid propellant is a prudent thing, the thresholds in the current regs are too extreme, I think. Also, the $25 fee for a limited use permit is an unnecessary and excessive tax for an activity that has miminal impact on public assets.
The military doesn't have a stellar record when it comes to safety/health in deploying new weapons. Look at ... the atomic bomb
The military is a big fan of "blinded me with Science" effect.
Seriously, what the hell? You're ignoring the grandparent's entire *point* to focus on two stupid minor software problems?
His point was to not have to do stuff at the commandline in Linux. I pointed him to a GUI alternative to the example commandline command he gave, which, given that it was his only example, he didn't appear to think all that minor. Given also the importance of keeping updated on patches, I don't think it's all that minor either. The difficulty here for the newbie is not one of proper syntax, but simply the concept of patch updates as descrete events in the first place.
What, exactly, are you trying to contribute to this discussion?
Information. A different perspective. Note that I didn't argue with him or belittle him or try to invalidate his overall point in doing so, thank you.