So, recently we heard that the One-Click Rejection was rejected, which has now itself been rejected and now the one-click patent has been totally rejected?
I read that there was a rejection review during which the rejection examiner found prior art that was obvious. This however was not the case and so the rejection was rejected and now I hear this guy making claims that some of his obvious prior art is infact obvious and should be counted on so the patent is now invalid.
What I don't understand is What is a Wookie doing on Endor?
Can someone give me one thing I can click which will explain this whole thing?
I have to opt-in to create an account to upload stuff. I have to confirm I have licenses for the data I am uploaded (it is mentioned in the T&Cs of your youtube account).
If there is something wrong the copyright holder should go after the uploader not the site.
B. You shall be solely responsible for your own User Submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with User Submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize YouTube to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Submissions to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service.
The Pentagon's interest in such an effort stems from the need to acquire energy on the battlefield, which today often comes at a painful premium."
Of course the pentagon supports it. Notice they don't say what they want the energy for? A 5-10 megawatts laser is as powerful as the original SDI plan (nuclear powered multi megawatt lasers) only it comes from clean energy.
An airstrike anywhere on earth with a high powered laser would be the ultimate clean weapon.
That sounds like a really good feature for right here, right now. Consider however that you are reading that same (now sanitised) mail a few months later.
How frustrating would it be to have your red hot ex girlfriend in a mail saying "i've attached the video of me wearing my Princess Leia outfit for you" and discover you fucking deleted it.
If you want the feature so badly, forward it to yourself and exclude the attachment or just delete the whole mail.
It appears as though I am behind the times. We are both talking about wear levelling, however I was referring to something known as Dynamic wear levelling which takes into account only the free portions of the disk whilst you are talking about a more advanced Static wear levelling.
Static wear levelling as you have described will move blocks of allocated data around and give ~4 times longer lifespan than the dynamic (space sensitive) levelling.
Why in the world would you uproot stable data and put it somewhere you don't trust? If you did move the good data, where would you put it to be sure its just as safe as it always has been?
The FS goes to write some data but discovers its got a warning marker on the cell it wants to write to, so it randomly selects a block from the little used pool and does a switcharoo with the good stuff and the bad stuff?
If you were going to write data to the high usage block anyway, why not put the new stuff there and forget about this whole stupid switch and duplication, however when MODIFYING a block instead of writing the data back to the original location it should select a new block from the low usage free blocks pile. Old data remains good, the new data is written using the best of what is left.
In a write failure situation I can see no rhyme or reason to effect other good bits.
I can 100% see the logic in ordering the free blocks in terms of usage so they are pulled from the pile with each allocation, but certainly not moving good data around (I haven't even mentioned the extra time required for your double write operation).
It is things like this which may effect performance and lifespan of an empty drive vs a drive with limited remaining space.
This would be my suspicion as well. Wear levelling can only occur when there are free blocks to utilise.
In my Amiga days I had a 245mb Quantum fireball drive (first one I was mega proud..) and I had a 20mb partition for my code. This was the only portion of the disk which ever crapped out on me. After a deep reorganisation I took the 20mb block out of use and left it with one single partition (~220mb).
I continued using this drive and computer in a similar way for another couple of years without issue from the drive which I attributed solely to there being spare blocks to use instead of cramping everything up.
With a huge rocket possibly exploding behind you I believe shoot is the correct term;)
One minute you are sitting the aiming for the ky, the next you are hurtling downwards towards the centre of the Earth. I hope the harness is easier to use than a real coaster though, it should really just be a sheet of webbing covering everywhere at the push of a button. An injured guy in a spacesuit isn't going to be able to sit in correct position, you will just want to lob him in a row of seats and be done.
Its not that it is a forced update, its that I consider IE7 to be a new product and as such should be explicitly requested.
Using the car analogy, Ford might be expected to recall and fit a safety problem with my old car, but they do not automatically replace and upgrade the centre console of your 2004 just because the 2008 model is out.
I still run Firefox 1.x in the office (I keep meaning to change it) but I am happy with the setup and I am a lot less concerned about browsing business sites with an out of date browser than I am about home browsing. Mozilla haven't attempted to force this issue with me yet even though I have updates turned on.
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Why does analog cable have to change?
Its not like it interferes with the broadcast spectrum.
my ex-girlfriend buried in a shoebox in my backyard
Your girlfriend was a hamster?
So, recently we heard that the One-Click Rejection was rejected, which has now itself been rejected and now the one-click patent has been totally rejected?
I read that there was a rejection review during which the rejection examiner found prior art that was obvious. This however was not the case and so the rejection was rejected and now I hear this guy making claims that some of his obvious prior art is infact obvious and should be counted on so the patent is now invalid.
What I don't understand is What is a Wookie doing on Endor?
Can someone give me one thing I can click which will explain this whole thing?
AND Count=2 and Gender='F'
bit more specificaction
Actually, its already opt-in.
I have to opt-in to create an account to upload stuff.
I have to confirm I have licenses for the data I am uploaded (it is mentioned in the T&Cs of your youtube account).
If there is something wrong the copyright holder should go after the uploader not the site.
B. You shall be solely responsible for your own User Submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with User Submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize YouTube to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Submissions to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service.
http://youtube.com/t/terms
a few weeks ago the poll was what perks do google get, well now we know:
unlimited copyright tape library.
Sergey and Larry must have a lot of popcorn.
It is indeed impressive.
I have had a quick runthrough on this rig with its onboard nvidia 6100 shared memory thing.
It reminds me of the old amiga Alien Breed/doom days with chunky pixelblocks, but it simply means that the renderer can only do so much.
I would however prefer the rendering path to use fast polygon based (UT99 quality) graphics rather than trying to render the slower shader pathways.
They already did this in independence day.
The Pentagon's interest in such an effort stems from the need to acquire energy on the battlefield, which today often comes at a painful premium."
Of course the pentagon supports it.
Notice they don't say what they want the energy for?
A 5-10 megawatts laser is as powerful as the original SDI plan (nuclear powered multi megawatt lasers) only it comes from clean energy.
An airstrike anywhere on earth with a high powered laser would be the ultimate clean weapon.
That sounds like a really good feature for right here, right now.
Consider however that you are reading that same (now sanitised) mail a few months later.
How frustrating would it be to have your red hot ex girlfriend in a mail saying "i've attached the video of me wearing my Princess Leia outfit for you" and discover you fucking deleted it.
If you want the feature so badly, forward it to yourself and exclude the attachment or just delete the whole mail.
It appears as though I am behind the times.
We are both talking about wear levelling, however I was referring to something known as Dynamic wear levelling which takes into account only the free portions of the disk whilst you are talking about a more advanced Static wear levelling.
Static wear levelling as you have described will move blocks of allocated data around and give ~4 times longer lifespan than the dynamic (space sensitive) levelling.
I read a very nice report about it here.
Nahh that sounds wrong on so many counts.
Why in the world would you uproot stable data and put it somewhere you don't trust?
If you did move the good data, where would you put it to be sure its just as safe as it always has been?
The FS goes to write some data but discovers its got a warning marker on the cell it wants to write to, so it randomly selects a block from the little used pool and does a switcharoo with the good stuff and the bad stuff?
If you were going to write data to the high usage block anyway, why not put the new stuff there and forget about this whole stupid switch and duplication, however when MODIFYING a block instead of writing the data back to the original location it should select a new block from the low usage free blocks pile. Old data remains good, the new data is written using the best of what is left.
In a write failure situation I can see no rhyme or reason to effect other good bits.
I can 100% see the logic in ordering the free blocks in terms of usage so they are pulled from the pile with each allocation, but certainly not moving good data around (I haven't even mentioned the extra time required for your double write operation).
It is things like this which may effect performance and lifespan of an empty drive vs a drive with limited remaining space.
This would be my suspicion as well.
Wear levelling can only occur when there are free blocks to utilise.
In my Amiga days I had a 245mb Quantum fireball drive (first one I was mega proud..) and I had a 20mb partition for my code.
This was the only portion of the disk which ever crapped out on me.
After a deep reorganisation I took the 20mb block out of use and left it with one single partition (~220mb).
I continued using this drive and computer in a similar way for another couple of years without issue from the drive which I attributed solely to there being spare blocks to use instead of cramping everything up.
Didn't Mandriva just do the same - by default the download includes Nvidia drivers and PDF etc?
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/09/1757214
Like he said, Secret Service.
Taco is in the Secret service, but keep that to yourself.
Let me weigh up the situation here:
Die due to running out of blood.
Survive because someone donated blood.
I realise that the length of time is a factor and you want the freshest possible, but beggars can't be choosers.
Proper link should be: http://www.mandriva.com/en/download.html
You have to entice the crowd with teasers.
Slashdot 10th Anniversary Party with free punch and pie!
(After I noticed one party in England is offering free food)
If you think its bad, consider how much Curtis James Jackson III will end up paying ;)
I was sure I posted in here earlier but its vanished..
Found it again from my comments but not here
His playlist included:
The Doors, Light my Fire
The Prodigy, Firestarter
Madonna, Burning up
Currently playing though was
James Brown, Hot pants.
With a huge rocket possibly exploding behind you I believe shoot is the correct term ;)
One minute you are sitting the aiming for the ky, the next you are hurtling downwards towards the centre of the Earth.
I hope the harness is easier to use than a real coaster though, it should really just be a sheet of webbing covering everywhere at the push of a button.
An injured guy in a spacesuit isn't going to be able to sit in correct position, you will just want to lob him in a row of seats and be done.
Actually, I think backslash occurs when you try pissing into the wind.
Its not that it is a forced update, its that I consider IE7 to be a new product and as such should be explicitly requested.
Using the car analogy, Ford might be expected to recall and fit a safety problem with my old car, but they do not automatically replace and upgrade the centre console of your 2004 just because the 2008 model is out.
I still run Firefox 1.x in the office (I keep meaning to change it) but I am happy with the setup and I am a lot less concerned about browsing business sites with an out of date browser than I am about home browsing.
Mozilla haven't attempted to force this issue with me yet even though I have updates turned on.
Fixing some bugs and not all just means yet another layer of compatibility hacks for the devs to code up.
Am I hearing this right?
This is SlashNation.