Cookies were first introduced by Netscape, either with Navigator 1 or Navigator 2. In any case, they were being discussed on public mailing lists in the first quarter of 1996, well before the December 1996 filing date of this patent.
Now all that needs to happen is for someone to tell the USPTO...
What makes you think that CD-Rs have cyanide in them? They use cyanine or pthlalocyanine dyes. cyanine != cyanide. In fact, they are completely different chemical compounds.
To clarify - the A760 is indeed the first Linux phone. The other three products in the Accompli line used this proprietary thing... although IIRC they all allowed for extension via Java.
Disclaimer: this only applies to the cities. I have no idea what life is like elsewhere in China
Well, the relative prices of things are pretty different in China. Basic goods are very, very cheap. We're talking 1/10th the price for most food, clothing, and basic household items. Electronics are more expensive than in the US - for example when the V60 first came out it was something like US$500. Real estate also is very expensive - I don't remember exactly how much, but definitely comparable to the US. There's also the issue that you can't own land outright in China, you can only buy 99-year leases from the government (but that's another issue entirely).
The biggest lifestyle difference I can see is that most people don't own cars in China. I wonder how much money a year they save from that...
I don't understand what you mean. How is this any worse than 90% of the population of the world having their software controlled by some folks in Redmond?
The great thing about open source, and the reason why all security software should be open source, is that open source projects are community audited. Just like how scientific journals must be peer-reviewed to mean anything, open source software tends to work better because lots of people have the ability to spot bugs/add functionality at the same time.
I don't know where you get your information from, but I was involved in the development of the A760. In reality, the core phone functionality is built on Qt and can be extended via Java.
This is the same model all the Motorola PDA-phones have taken in the past. They've actually had them for around five years now, but the idiots in Marketing didn't think they'd sell outside of China.
By the way, you can tell your old boss that I have my own boss to decide whether or not to fire me.
Yes to the first question. No to all the others, officially, although there is a Java API for writing your own programs. I think the lowest levels (radio communications, etc.) are protected and don't have explicit API access.
I suppose you could reverse engineer it but I don't know how hard or fruitful that would be.
Yes, they do run Linux. Most people in the cities own mobile phones. In fact, there are more mobile phones in use than land-line phones.
You'd be surprised at how capitalist China is. It's fast becoming a highly affluent society, and the companies that get in on the market are going to win enormously - those that don't are going to be left behind.
I don't know where you got the idea that people can't afford electronics there, but it's a pretty dated notion. At least 10 years out of date, I'd say.
Transmission lines are AC. AC is more efficient than DC since it's a lot easier to transform AC than DC, and you have less loss at extremely high voltages (since current is lower for the same amount of power, and so you don't need as thick a transmission line if you have high voltage and low current).
Interestingly, this was the subject of big debates between Tesla and Edison way back when. Edison would prove the "safety" of his DC system by passing low DC voltages safely through large animals, and then shocking (and killing them) with hundreds of AC volts.
Um, you're wrong. US citizens still have to pay federal income taxes on overseas income. In fact, if the US doesn't have a tax treaty with the country in question, you get taxed twice. Once by the US, and then by the country you worked in.
For the record, the problem is a Windows problem, it makes sense for Joe Sixpack who doesn't care what refresh he's running at. For the rest of us (myself included), all you need to do is edit the Windows registry to only enable your preferred refresh for each resolution in the monitor section. Not unlike editing your XF86Config file.
I don't see why this is so difficult to understand.
Thanks for clearing that up. I *think* what I meant to say is that if there's only one route to the gateway, then TCP gets fubared if the data path is unreliable. Of course, this would be the case with any protocol - what TCP was designed to fix is to choose an alternative path given that they exist. With Ethernet and TCP, though, when you have a heavily used link, it's particularly bad because of the retransmission delays you pointed out.
I wouldn't argue against Ethernet for photons vs. electroncs (see other posts in this thread) but I do have a problem with Ethernet's scalability. The lack of determinism CAN and IS a problem in huge networks.
I'm currently at MIT, and the network in my dorm was put in back when the dorm was first built in the 80s. It's 10-base-T and wholly inadequate for modern use. Random exponential backup is fine for situations where the ether isn't used heavily. It's pretty stupid flow control - if you sense a collision, wait some random period of time and try again. However, when you have a lot of stations transmitting, you get a lot of collisions... fast.
The typical figure for saturation of a medium is around 70% usage. For Ethernet, however, it's more like 38%. As you add stations, it becomes more and more difficult to transmit before you go through your 15 retries and throw out the packet.
When you combine this with TCP's assumptions, you run into some pretty perverse situations. TCP expects a network with 0 packet loss - the ACKs have to get back to the sender within some amount of time or it'll retransmit. When you get huge Ethernet networks with lots of activity, the exponential backup keeps delaying packet delivery until all communications slow to a crawl.
For me, this means having to tolerate 30% packet loss and transfers of around 10 KB/sec through a 10 Mbit network with something like 600 hosts.
The cure to all these problems has been revisions to Ethernet - switches establish an Ethernet link with two hosts between the switch and each port on the switch. It's a workaround to a stupid decision in the Ethernet protocol that's now firmly established and won't ever be changed because of its acceptance.
The 10.*.*.* block is reserved for private networks that are not regulated by IANA. Anybody can use those IPs as long as they don't connect to the Internet at large with those IPs.
Same with the 192.168.*.* block and some other block which I forget.
Maybe it's all a big social experiment into what human nature is through simulation.
The dreams that Neo had directly affected his course of action. If you wanted to figure out how human beings tick, what better way than to be able to control every parameter of what goes on within their minds and within their environments and see what behavior you get out in the end?
What's interesting is that people will listen to the Oracle. I thought this was a central point of Reloaded. Neo didn't know, or didn't really care about why he was doing everything. He expected to go to the Oracle, ask her what to do, and get the easy way out. This is how people are wired - we look for leadership, for someone else to tell us what to do.
The machines were counting on this, and it worked all the way up to Neo finding his way to the Source. But after he talked to the Architect, he did something unexpected - he went back to the Matrix instead of choosing to start a new Zion as the previous Neos had done. He didn't do what the Architect suggested because he had Trinity, a variable that the machines weren't expecting and was a particular variation in this instance of the anomaly. Realize that by choosing to go back to the Matrix, Neo's essentially damned the Resistance to war or death since it won't be started again if the Sentinels can destroy Zion this time around.
Then again, it seems like the machines need Zion to exist in order to catch that 1% of humans who won't accept the Matrix. So perhaps it doesn't matter what Neo does. Hmm... 1984 ending anyone?
I concede your points 1-3. But fundamentally it isn't a real jump in any kind of technology. They're laying a second network down and providing a means to connect to it from the Internet at large.
If you find this revolutionary, then maybe you should send your resume to M$ marketing.
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There is substantial prior art for this patent.
Cookies were first introduced by Netscape, either with Navigator 1 or Navigator 2. In any case, they were being discussed on public mailing lists in the first quarter of 1996, well before the December 1996 filing date of this patent.
Now all that needs to happen is for someone to tell the USPTO...
BAWOOP! BAWOOP! FUD ALERT! FUD ALERT!
It's a press release. That means, it's written by Verisign.
I have to go reset my FUD detector now.
Read the article. You get notified by email for stuff that's not scannable, plus all the originals are forwarded to your address when you specify.
Or you could just give the bank your *real* address.
Sigh... please think before you post.
What makes you think that CD-Rs have cyanide in them? They use cyanine or pthlalocyanine dyes. cyanine != cyanide. In fact, they are completely different chemical compounds.
Enough FUD already.
To clarify - the A760 is indeed the first Linux phone. The other three products in the Accompli line used this proprietary thing... although IIRC they all allowed for extension via Java.
Nope, I was only involved in the Accompli market segment.
But yeah, I heard some bad stuff about the V300. The V70's firmware was also pretty horrid - especially the two useless buttons on the cover...
Well, the relative prices of things are pretty different in China. Basic goods are very, very cheap. We're talking 1/10th the price for most food, clothing, and basic household items. Electronics are more expensive than in the US - for example when the V60 first came out it was something like US$500. Real estate also is very expensive - I don't remember exactly how much, but definitely comparable to the US. There's also the issue that you can't own land outright in China, you can only buy 99-year leases from the government (but that's another issue entirely).
The biggest lifestyle difference I can see is that most people don't own cars in China. I wonder how much money a year they save from that...
Hm, good point. I guess I'm mistaken, then.
I don't understand what you mean. How is this any worse than 90% of the population of the world having their software controlled by some folks in Redmond?
The great thing about open source, and the reason why all security software should be open source, is that open source projects are community audited. Just like how scientific journals must be peer-reviewed to mean anything, open source software tends to work better because lots of people have the ability to spot bugs/add functionality at the same time.
I don't know where you get your information from, but I was involved in the development of the A760. In reality, the core phone functionality is built on Qt and can be extended via Java.
This is the same model all the Motorola PDA-phones have taken in the past. They've actually had them for around five years now, but the idiots in Marketing didn't think they'd sell outside of China.
By the way, you can tell your old boss that I have my own boss to decide whether or not to fire me.
Yes to the first question. No to all the others, officially, although there is a Java API for writing your own programs. I think the lowest levels (radio communications, etc.) are protected and don't have explicit API access.
I suppose you could reverse engineer it but I don't know how hard or fruitful that would be.
Yes, they do run Linux. Most people in the cities own mobile phones. In fact, there are more mobile phones in use than land-line phones.
You'd be surprised at how capitalist China is. It's fast becoming a highly affluent society, and the companies that get in on the market are going to win enormously - those that don't are going to be left behind.
I don't know where you got the idea that people can't afford electronics there, but it's a pretty dated notion. At least 10 years out of date, I'd say.
...someone could annihilate every Windows machine connected to the internet in the entire world with one stroke.
Now that you mention it, that doesn't sound so bad...
Transmission lines are AC. AC is more efficient than DC since it's a lot easier to transform AC than DC, and you have less loss at extremely high voltages (since current is lower for the same amount of power, and so you don't need as thick a transmission line if you have high voltage and low current).
Interestingly, this was the subject of big debates between Tesla and Edison way back when. Edison would prove the "safety" of his DC system by passing low DC voltages safely through large animals, and then shocking (and killing them) with hundreds of AC volts.
Um, you're wrong. US citizens still have to pay federal income taxes on overseas income. In fact, if the US doesn't have a tax treaty with the country in question, you get taxed twice. Once by the US, and then by the country you worked in.
Sigh. The AC called me a luser, waaa!
For the record, the problem is a Windows problem, it makes sense for Joe Sixpack who doesn't care what refresh he's running at. For the rest of us (myself included), all you need to do is edit the Windows registry to only enable your preferred refresh for each resolution in the monitor section. Not unlike editing your XF86Config file.
I don't see why this is so difficult to understand.
You mean,
Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.
For the record, my 9700 Pro works great too.
Thanks for clearing that up. I *think* what I meant to say is that if there's only one route to the gateway, then TCP gets fubared if the data path is unreliable. Of course, this would be the case with any protocol - what TCP was designed to fix is to choose an alternative path given that they exist. With Ethernet and TCP, though, when you have a heavily used link, it's particularly bad because of the retransmission delays you pointed out.
I wouldn't argue against Ethernet for photons vs. electroncs (see other posts in this thread) but I do have a problem with Ethernet's scalability. The lack of determinism CAN and IS a problem in huge networks.
I'm currently at MIT, and the network in my dorm was put in back when the dorm was first built in the 80s. It's 10-base-T and wholly inadequate for modern use. Random exponential backup is fine for situations where the ether isn't used heavily. It's pretty stupid flow control - if you sense a collision, wait some random period of time and try again. However, when you have a lot of stations transmitting, you get a lot of collisions... fast.
The typical figure for saturation of a medium is around 70% usage. For Ethernet, however, it's more like 38%. As you add stations, it becomes more and more difficult to transmit before you go through your 15 retries and throw out the packet.
When you combine this with TCP's assumptions, you run into some pretty perverse situations. TCP expects a network with 0 packet loss - the ACKs have to get back to the sender within some amount of time or it'll retransmit. When you get huge Ethernet networks with lots of activity, the exponential backup keeps delaying packet delivery until all communications slow to a crawl.
For me, this means having to tolerate 30% packet loss and transfers of around 10 KB/sec through a 10 Mbit network with something like 600 hosts.
The cure to all these problems has been revisions to Ethernet - switches establish an Ethernet link with two hosts between the switch and each port on the switch. It's a workaround to a stupid decision in the Ethernet protocol that's now firmly established and won't ever be changed because of its acceptance.
The 10.*.*.* block is reserved for private networks that are not regulated by IANA. Anybody can use those IPs as long as they don't connect to the Internet at large with those IPs.
Same with the 192.168.*.* block and some other block which I forget.
Maybe it's all a big social experiment into what human nature is through simulation.
The dreams that Neo had directly affected his course of action. If you wanted to figure out how human beings tick, what better way than to be able to control every parameter of what goes on within their minds and within their environments and see what behavior you get out in the end?
What's interesting is that people will listen to the Oracle. I thought this was a central point of Reloaded. Neo didn't know, or didn't really care about why he was doing everything. He expected to go to the Oracle, ask her what to do, and get the easy way out. This is how people are wired - we look for leadership, for someone else to tell us what to do.
The machines were counting on this, and it worked all the way up to Neo finding his way to the Source. But after he talked to the Architect, he did something unexpected - he went back to the Matrix instead of choosing to start a new Zion as the previous Neos had done. He didn't do what the Architect suggested because he had Trinity, a variable that the machines weren't expecting and was a particular variation in this instance of the anomaly. Realize that by choosing to go back to the Matrix, Neo's essentially damned the Resistance to war or death since it won't be started again if the Sentinels can destroy Zion this time around.
Then again, it seems like the machines need Zion to exist in order to catch that 1% of humans who won't accept the Matrix. So perhaps it doesn't matter what Neo does. Hmm... 1984 ending anyone?
Sorry if I phrased my comment wrong.
I concede your points 1-3. But fundamentally it isn't a real jump in any kind of technology. They're laying a second network down and providing a means to connect to it from the Internet at large.
If you find this revolutionary, then maybe you should send your resume to M$ marketing.
Well, only for those that choose to pay to access their network.
This isn't that big a deal. If you read the article you'll find that all they're doing is laying connections between the busiest WWW sites.
It's not scanning or anything, just laying new fiber and forcing people to pay. Calling this new technology is like calling a toll road revolutionary.