I am not so sure that it is all that unfounded. Let's look at the real players here, IBM and M$. (Novell and SCO are bit players.) Remember that M$ screwed IBM into the ground with the OS2 stuff. IBM lost a lot of money - and in fact lost a whole business. I do not think that IBM has forgotten - hence their support for Lunix. My guess is that having IBM push Lunix scares the @#@$ out of M$. Now M$ is looking at the potential for their SCO gambit to fail - and fail in such a way so as to make Lunix somewhat immune to attack. (Clearly not entirely but...) M$ is looking at other ways - hence the deal with Novell. (And perhaps this was payment to Novell to get them to stop the bleeding via SCO.) Remember, M$ dumped a bunch of money into SCO. Here they - it would seem - to be dumping more money into the fire - trying to keep the fire burning. Also remember that M$ has 'just' spent 9 Billion to develop a new OS. One that there near future depends on. This is an OS that a lot of people are concerned about - I would not install it any time soon. (In fact, I need to go out and get a few extra copies of XP - before it is off the shelf.) If there are major issues - it something that is likely to push people to other OSs. If you can scare people enough they might put up with more garbage.
if they could just create something to unwrap the Barbies - It takes 20 minutes to untie all of the metal bands and plastic ties. (Before you ask, I have two daughters.)
I have purchased Apple products for years and I currently have 6 Macs in my house. I do not pirate (steal) music and in fact have bought a number of complete CDs from iTunes - as well as physical CDs from elsewhere. If you cave into the RIAA, I will take my business elsewhere.
" if I came in and started talking to you about virtualization on Linux, and this Microsoft guy showed up and started talking to you about virtualization on Windows, what would you say to us?"
This patent was first submitted in 2002, which probably means it was turned down and appealed at least twice.
Ah no this is not necessarily the case. Sometimes it takes longer then this without having to go through appeal.
As anyone who has gone through the patent process knows, if you appeal enough times eventually you might find an examiner who is clueless enough to grant the patent.
This is often true but usually it is the first one that is clueless. If it is appealed then the second examiner has the comments of the first - as well as the listed prior art. So the end result is that appeal you actually need to come back and show why the claimed prior art is not really prior art. This is tougher. (Been there done that.)
I couldn't imagine LSI ever intends to protect the patent (since it obviously would never stand up in court). Most likely, they are just seeking bragging rights "Hey look, we had 30 patents approved this year".
Unlikely that they would be able to protect it but I doubt that they did it for 'bragging rights'. It is too expensive to do it for 'bragging rights.'
the difficult bit is getting more usable energy out than is put in
Ah it is worse then that - I once saw a high speed movie of a 'disruption' on TFTR (the old Princeton tokamak). The main plasma hit one of the divertors - a LARGE blob of crap (mostly C) came flying off the wall, flew across the chamber, hit the inner wall and exploded into lots of little pieces. I know right then that fusion - as it is currently being studied - will never be economically. Large = fist size and Fusion plasmas do not run correctly if there is a little bit of 'heavy' elements, e.g. not H or He, in the system. It takes forever to clean up. TFTR also had lot of pin holes in it at the end of the 20+ year run...and required ~100 PhDs to keep it going, ITER will work as well as TFTR only 'better'. I am certain that
ITER does not = International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor rather
ITER = International Tokamak Employee Retirement fund
But the more votes there are, the greater the chance that random errors would cancel themselves out, especially in a situation where the actual votes are evenly split. The situation partly depends on what kind of errors you're talking about (deleting a vote vs. recording a vote incorrectly), but I think GP is correct for most reasonable definitions of of random errors. The terminology may or may not be correct, but the idea is.
Wait a second this is all digital - THERE SHOULD NOT BE SAMPLING ERRORS!.
Statistics has nothing to do with this - or else you will find that 3+2 = 6 some times and 4 other times. On average you'd still get 5 but...
And what, 8 bars? Yeah I grew up near towns like that - farmers have to go someplace. (Our town was the MAJOR metro area - having maybe 10,000 people.;-) )
There is a place close to me, called erecycler, that resells a bunch of things - mostly used computers from businesses and schools. This is a really good way to cut down on the waste. (Yes eventually it does wearout but this gives it a longer life.) I've bought stuff from them with good luck.
Like everything else, if these guys ever get it together and actually launch something, it's going to be in Calif*. Calif* is where the customers are, where the investors are, where every single business venture ends up. It doesn't matter how over crowded or expensive it is. Some kind of biological programming requires every investment to be crammed into one state.
This is simply not true.
Mass was higher - at least in 2002 and Colorado was only slightly behind.
If you RTFA you will see that he is paying ~$250/ acre. It is above market value but it is not really that much money for someone that rich. In fact he probably found the $7.5 M that he paid one rancher inside the cushions of his couch. If I am reading the FA correctly, he has purchased 5 to 10 ranches - each of about 30 to 60 k Acres - about 300 k acres in total. This is about $ 75 M. For someone with $4.3 B this is close to chump change. He probably earns more then that from Amazon (including options and stock value) each year. Remember Amazon is only about 10 years old - so he has averaged ~$400 M each year.
What they found was actually a general flaw in wireless drivers that comply with the Wi-Fi standard. Why do self-appointed security experts always seem to have to find something wrong with Apple (and incorrectly) to prove their mettle?
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I am not so sure that it is all that unfounded. Let's look at the real players here, IBM and M$. (Novell and SCO are bit players.) Remember that M$ screwed IBM into the ground with the OS2 stuff. IBM lost a lot of money - and in fact lost a whole business. I do not think that IBM has forgotten - hence their support for Lunix. My guess is that having IBM push Lunix scares the @#@$ out of M$. Now M$ is looking at the potential for their SCO gambit to fail - and fail in such a way so as to make Lunix somewhat immune to attack. (Clearly not entirely but...) M$ is looking at other ways - hence the deal with Novell. (And perhaps this was payment to Novell to get them to stop the bleeding via SCO.) Remember, M$ dumped a bunch of money into SCO. Here they - it would seem - to be dumping more money into the fire - trying to keep the fire burning. Also remember that M$ has 'just' spent 9 Billion to develop a new OS. One that there near future depends on. This is an OS that a lot of people are concerned about - I would not install it any time soon. (In fact, I need to go out and get a few extra copies of XP - before it is off the shelf.) If there are major issues - it something that is likely to push people to other OSs. If you can scare people enough they might put up with more garbage.
Just my opinion....
Damn and I just got Lasik and now you made me scratch my eyes out..... why didn't you say this BEFORE I spent the money
no - that is not strong enough. You need something more like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_boring_machine
if they could just create something to unwrap the Barbies - It takes 20 minutes to untie all of the metal bands and plastic ties. (Before you ask, I have two daughters.)
It is "JURY rigged" not gerry rigged. See http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-jur1.htm
4 kids, 1 wife and my work laptop.
Re: The iPOD tax
I have purchased Apple products for years and I currently have 6 Macs in my house. I do not pirate (steal) music and in fact have bought a number of complete CDs from iTunes - as well as physical CDs from elsewhere. If you cave into the RIAA, I will take my business elsewhere.
ME
OK before I get flamed! "Novell has signed to kill some FUD." at least as far as the CEO of Novell is willing to let on.
OK which one of you would cost me less in TCO.
Ah no this is not necessarily the case. Sometimes it takes longer then this without having to go through appeal.
This is often true but usually it is the first one that is clueless. If it is appealed then the second examiner has the comments of the first - as well as the listed prior art. So the end result is that appeal you actually need to come back and show why the claimed prior art is not really prior art. This is tougher. (Been there done that.)
Unlikely that they would be able to protect it but I doubt that they did it for 'bragging rights'. It is too expensive to do it for 'bragging rights.'
Difference being that NIF is not really for energy production.
Think about WHERE it is located.
Consumer Reports did something on it about two months ago. (The cover was the 'Ethanol Myth'.)
Ah it is worse then that - I once saw a high speed movie of a 'disruption' on TFTR (the old Princeton tokamak). The main plasma hit one of the divertors - a LARGE blob of crap (mostly C) came flying off the wall, flew across the chamber, hit the inner wall and exploded into lots of little pieces. I know right then that fusion - as it is currently being studied - will never be economically. Large = fist size and Fusion plasmas do not run correctly if there is a little bit of 'heavy' elements, e.g. not H or He, in the system. It takes forever to clean up. TFTR also had lot of pin holes in it at the end of the 20+ year run...and required ~100 PhDs to keep it going, ITER will work as well as TFTR only 'better'. I am certain that
ITER does not = International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor rather
ITER = International Tokamak Employee Retirement fund
I will now quitely go hide in a cave for the next 30 years
Say what? 1 nano = 1000 pico.
How is that 'vitually identical'?
Besides I think the GP was talking about the diffence in program size/features. (In my mind, adding features is not necessarily a positive item.)
Wait a second this is all digital - THERE SHOULD NOT BE SAMPLING ERRORS!.
Statistics has nothing to do with this - or else you will find that 3+2 = 6 some times and 4 other times. On average you'd still get 5 but...
And what, 8 bars? Yeah I grew up near towns like that - farmers have to go someplace. (Our town was the MAJOR metro area - having maybe 10,000 people. ;-) )
There is a place close to me, called erecycler, that resells a bunch of things - mostly used computers from businesses and schools. This is a really good way to cut down on the waste. (Yes eventually it does wearout but this gives it a longer life.) I've bought stuff from them with good luck.
Yup - Saturday night and we are all here posting like mad about a B actor in a TV commercial. I gotta get out more.
Ever spend a summer in west Texas? There is a 'joke' comparing west Texas with Hell. Hell wins.
This is simply not true. Mass was higher - at least in 2002 and Colorado was only slightly behind.
If you RTFA you will see that he is paying ~$250/ acre. It is above market value but it is not really that much money for someone that rich. In fact he probably found the $7.5 M that he paid one rancher inside the cushions of his couch. If I am reading the FA correctly, he has purchased 5 to 10 ranches - each of about 30 to 60 k Acres - about 300 k acres in total. This is about $ 75 M. For someone with $4.3 B this is close to chump change. He probably earns more then that from Amazon (including options and stock value) each year. Remember Amazon is only about 10 years old - so he has averaged ~$400 M each year.
Maybe because it gets more press?