Said person reads their employment contract very carefully, and if they are suspicious of any such clauses, they either a) renegotiate the contract or b) don't work for that employer.
Can't be too careful with things like that nowadays.
Even worse, CanWest is pro the current Liberal government
Wow. You must be watching a different Global than I watch... Kevin Newman (and the rest of Global News) has such an anti-liberal slant it's not even funny. Have you EVER watched the segment called "The Last Word"? I would guess that the CanWest Global network is far more right-leaning than pro-liberal.
I'm not sure where you live, but in certain provinces here in Canada, many corporations were "crown" corporations (i.e. government owned and run) including power and telephone. The trend lately, however, has been to privatize these businesses and move away from a government-run model because the government was no longer interested (or capable of) running the businesses.
Avatars have rights in the virtual world as dictated by the creators of said world. No more, no less. The same goes for the principles of property.
The real world laws do not (and should not) cross over into the real of virtual worlds.
Getting in on this topic a little late...
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but I'd still recommend "The Dark Tower" series by Stephen King. I'm just finishing "Wizard and Glass" (book 4), and I'm already looking forward to the 5th book which comes out in November. Definitely not a "tech" series but very good nonetheless. The Dark Tower theme and some characters also pops up in other books by King, so it makes for an interesting read.
I don't think so, but I'm not positive. While MIPS is a (one of many) metric of processor speed, I think the computon is more a measurement of the resources used by a corporation for pricing guidelines.
I'm not entirely sure that's what happened in this instance. SonicBlue used to own ReplayTV, and they fought (with the EFF) against removing these features.
Then SonicBlue went bankrupt and were purchased by a Japanese company mentioned in the article, and it seems as though this new company is bending to the pressure.
Don't upgrade your firmware. You will be fine as long as you're in a 802.11g only environment. The problem comes when 802.11g devices coexist with 802.11b devices. As it is now, your hardware should be fine.
I don't think this has much to do with politics. Reading the article, it looks like a backwards-compatibility issue such that 802.11g devices don't interfere with 802.11b devices in a co-existing environment.
Nono, it's not taken quite that far, you can still use WHOIS or nslookup or other things, it's just that Verisign has a specifically patented process that other registrars may not be able to use. So yes, some larger domain name registrars may have to come up with different lookup methods, or license Verisign's technology, if they chose to enforce the patent. But that would not stop you from registering domain names with other registrars than Verisign.
I think Secure Digital in this instance means the same Secure Digital when referring to storage for digital cameras, PDAs, etc. I don't think it means enhanced "security" features per se (but I am not incredibly well versed in this area), I think it is just a larger storage device. Secure Digital cards come in common sizes like 4MB, 8MB, 16, 32, 64MB, etc...
I could be totally off-the-wall wrong here, though.
I do. This patent has little to do with nslookup or whois, and much to do with facilitating a large number of lookups across DNS servers to see if a domain name is taken. The patent covers Verisign's method of allowing users to specify a desirable domain name they are interested in, and querying several DNS servers for its availability, and further to that, formatting it in a nice manner and presenting order forms to the user if the domain name is available.
The article states, however, that the PageRank calculation optimizations would not improve search times for end-users of the search engines. They simply improve the calculation of PageRank information.
A PageRank calculation does not take place on every single search, it is a periodic backend function, is my understanding.
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I'm just not sure that I agree with you here. A good DBA may not need to know very much in terms of system administration, but can probably walk all over a good sysadmin in terms of database design and management. A sysadmin will probably not be as familiar with MySQL as a good DBA will.
It seems to me as though what you're saying is sysadmins, because they can install these programs, exhibit a "certain level of expertise" that a person unfamiliar to a UNIX command line might not. A good DBA can always fall back on his/her SQL standards-compliant syntax and feel right at home, regardless of whether or not he or she can set up MSSQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, or whatever.
This is a very ambitious goal for the RoboCup team... it will require great strides in so many areas: things like image recognition, mechanical and electrical engineering, and a severe amount of artificial intelligence breakthroughs. Soccer is not just a game that can be "solved" like checkers, tic-tac-toe, and awari are, and chess will be. It requires a much higher level of artificial intelligence (decision making, goal-based planning, etc.)
It would be very neat to see something like this happen, and I know 47 years is a long time, but it's still an incredibly ambitious goal:)
You missed the second part of the statement though... the ease of use in storing to digital media:) but yes, I guess the ability to encode at 192kbps or whatever doesn't help out much on an FM input...
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Said person reads their employment contract very carefully, and if they are suspicious of any such clauses, they either a) renegotiate the contract or b) don't work for that employer.
Can't be too careful with things like that nowadays.
Even worse, CanWest is pro the current Liberal government
... Kevin Newman (and the rest of Global News) has such an anti-liberal slant it's not even funny. Have you EVER watched the segment called "The Last Word"? I would guess that the CanWest Global network is far more right-leaning than pro-liberal.
Wow. You must be watching a different Global than I watch
I'm not sure where you live, but in certain provinces here in Canada, many corporations were "crown" corporations (i.e. government owned and run) including power and telephone. The trend lately, however, has been to privatize these businesses and move away from a government-run model because the government was no longer interested (or capable of) running the businesses.
Avatars have rights in the virtual world as dictated by the creators of said world. No more, no less. The same goes for the principles of property.
The real world laws do not (and should not) cross over into the real of virtual worlds.
but I'd still recommend "The Dark Tower" series by Stephen King. I'm just finishing "Wizard and Glass" (book 4), and I'm already looking forward to the 5th book which comes out in November. Definitely not a "tech" series but very good nonetheless. The Dark Tower theme and some characters also pops up in other books by King, so it makes for an interesting read.
Ah, thanks for the clarification, I figured it was 128-bit address space but I calculated it wrong.
I sure as hell hope so ... ~3.4^38 addresses or so, if I remember right?
I don't think so, but I'm not positive. While MIPS is a (one of many) metric of processor speed, I think the computon is more a measurement of the resources used by a corporation for pricing guidelines.
Good question ... through Google Groups I found this page.
The BBC article mentions Paul Graham, and I found his page (and some more information on Bayesian networks for spam filtering) here:
Paul Graham's spam page
He talks a little bit more about the technical aspects there.
I'm not entirely sure that's what happened in this instance. SonicBlue used to own ReplayTV, and they fought (with the EFF) against removing these features.
Then SonicBlue went bankrupt and were purchased by a Japanese company mentioned in the article, and it seems as though this new company is bending to the pressure.
Don't upgrade your firmware. You will be fine as long as you're in a 802.11g only environment. The problem comes when 802.11g devices coexist with 802.11b devices. As it is now, your hardware should be fine.
I don't think this has much to do with politics. Reading the article, it looks like a backwards-compatibility issue such that 802.11g devices don't interfere with 802.11b devices in a co-existing environment.
Nono, it's not taken quite that far, you can still use WHOIS or nslookup or other things, it's just that Verisign has a specifically patented process that other registrars may not be able to use. So yes, some larger domain name registrars may have to come up with different lookup methods, or license Verisign's technology, if they chose to enforce the patent. But that would not stop you from registering domain names with other registrars than Verisign.
I think Secure Digital in this instance means the same Secure Digital when referring to storage for digital cameras, PDAs, etc. I don't think it means enhanced "security" features per se (but I am not incredibly well versed in this area), I think it is just a larger storage device. Secure Digital cards come in common sizes like 4MB, 8MB, 16, 32, 64MB, etc...
I could be totally off-the-wall wrong here, though.
I did not rule out prior art as a whole, I only suggested why nslookup and whois are not instances of prior art.
I do. This patent has little to do with nslookup or whois, and much to do with facilitating a large number of lookups across DNS servers to see if a domain name is taken. The patent covers Verisign's method of allowing users to specify a desirable domain name they are interested in, and querying several DNS servers for its availability, and further to that, formatting it in a nice manner and presenting order forms to the user if the domain name is available.
The article states, however, that the PageRank calculation optimizations would not improve search times for end-users of the search engines. They simply improve the calculation of PageRank information.
A PageRank calculation does not take place on every single search, it is a periodic backend function, is my understanding.
I'm just not sure that I agree with you here. A good DBA may not need to know very much in terms of system administration, but can probably walk all over a good sysadmin in terms of database design and management. A sysadmin will probably not be as familiar with MySQL as a good DBA will.
It seems to me as though what you're saying is sysadmins, because they can install these programs, exhibit a "certain level of expertise" that a person unfamiliar to a UNIX command line might not. A good DBA can always fall back on his/her SQL standards-compliant syntax and feel right at home, regardless of whether or not he or she can set up MSSQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, or whatever.
Definitely not-deliberate. I should spend more time proof-reading.
Yep, you're exactly right, I made a mistake with that statement :)
Hmm, good point, and a poor generalization on my part.
Hmm ... on second thought, I suppose a game of soccer is probably less a question of goal-based solving, and more utility-based planning.
This is a very ambitious goal for the RoboCup team ... it will require great strides in so many areas: things like image recognition, mechanical and electrical engineering, and a severe amount of artificial intelligence breakthroughs. Soccer is not just a game that can be "solved" like checkers, tic-tac-toe, and awari are, and chess will be. It requires a much higher level of artificial intelligence (decision making, goal-based planning, etc.)
:)
It would be very neat to see something like this happen, and I know 47 years is a long time, but it's still an incredibly ambitious goal
You missed the second part of the statement though ... the ease of use in storing to digital media :) but yes, I guess the ability to encode at 192kbps or whatever doesn't help out much on an FM input...