wondering why this fellow signed an agreement to assign inventions to the company if he didn't plan to keep it.
Read the fscking article. He doesn't want to keep the IP for himself. From my reading, it seems as if this gentleman wishes to keep his agreement with the company (for which he no longer works) about assigning them the rights to inventions. His problem is that he believes that the patent they are applying for (in his name!) is overbroad, and possibly invalid (prior art).
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
I'd say that clause of the Fourteenth Amendment trumps the DMCA, at least for the proposed test case.
The real issue is that this replaces cable TV, which is going to drive the cable and broadcast industries nuts. It may even kill broadcast HTDV before HDTV really gets going. The existing broadcast/cable industry is going to want to keep users from receiving from any streaming source anywhere. Then again, it's not clear which side AOL/Time Warner or AT&T/Viacom will be on. Expect huge political battles.
I agree. We may see MPAA/RIAA style attacks against this, though I don't know what they'll use as a basis, it's probably not too hard for them to buy a congresscritter or two and have some law railroaded through...
I can't even begin to see where this will lead, but better to go there than to have a "NO ENTRANCE" sign at the start of the trail...
Gymnastics' "breakout" athlete was Olga Korbut in '72.
Re: Peter Westbrook. I met him in '84. Got his autograph somewhere, but he was kind of rude. He was probably tired though... Steve Mormando, on the other hand, was very polite and friendly.
Geosync orbit is about 40000Km, so with counterbalance (assuming an asteroid at the other end), you need about a 50000 Km (not 50Km) elevator. The Marianas trench is 11Km deep, not 11000 Km.
But if it's low enough to "hop on" or "hop off", that means the atmosphere is moving relative to it. And at the equator, that relative motion is greater than Mach 1. I don't know about you, but I'm not sure I'd like "hop off" of an object travelling at supersonic speeds...
The originator of the concept was a Russian named Artusanov (sp?). Clarke fleshed out the concept (for fictional purposed) in "The Fountains of Paradise", and expanded on it in "3001". Heinlein also mentions the possibility of using Kilamanjaro (sp?) as the base for a space elevator in "Friday".
From what I can tell from reading the article, this is not an attempt by AMEX to provide either anonymity or privacy, but rather a security measure.
If you get a tempCC and give to an e-tailer, and
Joe "31337 h4x0r" cracks the e-tailer's database, all he gets is an expired tempCC number. AMEX is not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, but in an attempt to cut their fraud losses.
Never attribute to altruism that which is explainable by self-interest.
And we had to walk 15 miles in the freezing snow just to get to a computer. Uphill! Both ways!
Seriously though, I'm with you. I prefer puts()/fputs() to printf() for unformatted output. It's smaller and faster. I remember trying to shoehorn 130K of executable into 128K RAM on a proprietary box... You wouldn't believe how we did it... Turns out we had a lot of repeated static string data, so routines like
void print_this() { print("this"); }
(note, it wasn't C, but an interpreted display code) saved about 4K in fixed string space!
A question that often comes to my mind when I read about the discovery of new constituents of mass and matter - like that worrying proliferation of "elementary" particles that Gell-Mann and others (according to the above, which I'm taking entirely at face value) found ways to reduce and simplify - is whether there is a straightforward, or even a complex-but-rigorous, difference between discovering such elements and creating them.
The book Constructing Quarks, by Andrew Pickering discusses this very issue. It's a sociological look at the process of HEP. Very dense read, but worthwhile, if you can get throug it.
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A SIMPLIFICATION. NO FLAMES PLEASE
No, because the speed of light is currently an absolute limit (no speeding tickets!), when you pour energy into a relativistic particle, most of that energy goes into increasing the particle's mass rather than its velocity.
So it doesn't slow down (Newton's first law applies anyway) even though its mass increases.
What about us Windows users?
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At work, I must use WinNT. We must encrypt all attachments sent over the net. What are the advantages of GPG for Win32 over PGP? Does it integrate with Netscape? With Outlook98 (shudder)?
The sad part about all this is some sports, like fencing, get no coverage in the U.S. I wouldn't care if it was televised at 3AM - I would set the VCR!
Geez, and I thought I was the only one! I was lucky enough to get tix to some of the fencing events in '84, and was even going to try the infamous "triplecast", but reading the cable company's description, they didn't even put it there!
The midnite shows on NBC are more of those stupid-ass human-interest interviews and rehashes of what they just showed us from 7-11. I can understand that they won't put Fencing, Modern Pentathalon and the like on in prime time (but they do put Rhythmic Gymnastics on????), but can't you give us poor folks after midnite????
The company I work for produced its products in US and rest-of-world flavours only.
That may not have been a patent issue, but a result of the brain-dead US crypto laws, which considered strong crypto a muntion for purposes of export under ITAR.
When I was at UC Santa Cruz (back in '84) there was a lot of debate among the student community about whether theoretical or more practical classes should be taught. IIRC, the board kept the theoretical emphasis, but gave a few practical classes.
Mr. Kernighan hits the nail on the head. The theory I learned has lasted for the past 15 years. Any "practical" programming I learned was pretty much out of date. Heck, we used Pascal as the main language...
My copy of Deitel (1st edition) mentions IBM's VM as well. I also remember using MUSIC (McGill University System for Interactive Computing) under VM in 1980 and 1981.
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wondering why this fellow signed an agreement to assign inventions to the company if he didn't plan to keep it.
Read the fscking article. He doesn't want to keep the IP for himself. From my reading, it seems as if this gentleman wishes to keep his agreement with the company (for which he no longer works) about assigning them the rights to inventions. His problem is that he believes that the patent they are applying for (in his name!) is overbroad, and possibly invalid (prior art).
How about The Fourteenth Amendment
How could I be redundant? I was post #4!!!!!
The real issue is that this replaces cable TV, which is going to drive the cable and broadcast industries nuts. It may even kill broadcast HTDV before HDTV really gets going. The existing broadcast/cable industry is going to want to keep users from receiving from any streaming source anywhere. Then again, it's not clear which side AOL/Time Warner or AT&T/Viacom will be on. Expect huge political battles.
I agree. We may see MPAA/RIAA style attacks against this, though I don't know what they'll use as a basis, it's probably not too hard for them to buy a congresscritter or two and have some law railroaded through...
I can't even begin to see where this will lead, but better to go there than to have a "NO ENTRANCE" sign at the start of the trail...
The AC who replied also got it right. See my .sig.
If school isn't your thing, well, then maybe you shouldn't go
Except it's probably against the law NOT to go if he's a minor...
Given the description of a "300a", I assume he meant a Celeron.
Hey! I've had SCO Boxen (ODT2.0) that have been running for 7 years. Only downtime was
H/W Upgrade
Power Supply on one box failed
Gymnastics' "breakout" athlete was Olga Korbut in '72.
Re: Peter Westbrook. I met him in '84. Got his autograph somewhere, but he was kind of rude. He was probably tired though... Steve Mormando, on the other hand, was very polite and friendly.
Everyone needs to get their units straight.
Geosync orbit is about 40000Km, so with counterbalance (assuming an asteroid at the other end), you need about a 50000 Km (not 50Km) elevator. The Marianas trench is 11Km deep, not 11000 Km.
But if it's low enough to "hop on" or "hop off", that means the atmosphere is moving relative to it. And at the equator, that relative motion is greater than Mach 1. I don't know about you, but I'm not sure I'd like "hop off" of an object travelling at supersonic speeds...
The originator of the concept was a Russian named Artusanov (sp?). Clarke fleshed out the concept (for fictional purposed) in "The Fountains of Paradise", and expanded on it in "3001". Heinlein also mentions the possibility of using Kilamanjaro (sp?) as the base for a space elevator in "Friday".
From what I can tell from reading the article, this is not an attempt by AMEX to provide either anonymity or privacy, but rather a security measure.
If you get a tempCC and give to an e-tailer, and
Joe "31337 h4x0r" cracks the e-tailer's database, all he gets is an expired tempCC number. AMEX is not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, but in an attempt to cut their fraud losses.
Never attribute to altruism that which is explainable by self-interest.
And we had to walk 15 miles in the freezing snow just to get to a computer. Uphill! Both ways!
Seriously though, I'm with you. I prefer puts()/fputs() to printf() for unformatted output. It's smaller and faster. I remember trying to shoehorn 130K of executable into 128K RAM on a proprietary box... You wouldn't believe how we did it... Turns out we had a lot of repeated static string data, so routines like
void print_this() { print("this"); }
(note, it wasn't C, but an interpreted display code) saved about 4K in fixed string space!
A question that often comes to my mind when I read about the discovery of new constituents of mass and matter - like that worrying proliferation of "elementary" particles that Gell-Mann and others (according to the above, which I'm taking entirely at face value) found ways to reduce and simplify - is whether there is a straightforward, or even a complex-but-rigorous, difference between discovering such elements and creating them.
The book Constructing Quarks, by Andrew Pickering discusses this very issue. It's a sociological look at the process of HEP. Very dense read, but worthwhile, if you can get throug it.
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A SIMPLIFICATION. NO FLAMES PLEASE
No, because the speed of light is currently an absolute limit (no speeding tickets!), when you pour energy into a relativistic particle, most of that energy goes into increasing the particle's mass rather than its velocity.
So it doesn't slow down (Newton's first law applies anyway) even though its mass increases.
At work, I must use WinNT. We must encrypt all attachments sent over the net. What are the advantages of GPG for Win32 over PGP? Does it integrate with Netscape? With Outlook98 (shudder)?
The sad part about all this is some sports, like fencing, get no coverage in the U.S. I wouldn't care if it was televised at 3AM - I would set the VCR!
Geez, and I thought I was the only one! I was lucky enough to get tix to some of the fencing events in '84, and was even going to try the infamous "triplecast", but reading the cable company's description, they didn't even put it there!
The midnite shows on NBC are more of those stupid-ass human-interest interviews and rehashes of what they just showed us from 7-11. I can understand that they won't put Fencing, Modern Pentathalon and the like on in prime time (but they do put Rhythmic Gymnastics on????), but can't you give us poor folks after midnite????
The company I work for produced its products in US and rest-of-world flavours only.
That may not have been a patent issue, but a result of the brain-dead US crypto laws, which considered strong crypto a muntion for purposes of export under ITAR.
I thought it did pass. Check out talk.politics.crypto.
Just out of curiosity...
When does the LZW Patent expire? It's got to be sometime soon...
When I was at UC Santa Cruz (back in '84) there was a lot of debate among the student community about whether theoretical or more practical classes should be taught. IIRC, the board kept the theoretical emphasis, but gave a few practical classes.
Mr. Kernighan hits the nail on the head. The theory I learned has lasted for the past 15 years. Any "practical" programming I learned was pretty much out of date. Heck, we used Pascal as the main language...
Good for him!
The great thing about VM was that it virtualized the 360 so well that you could even run VM under VM.
My copy of Deitel (1st edition) mentions IBM's VM as well. I also remember using MUSIC (McGill University System for Interactive Computing) under VM in 1980 and 1981.
Somehow I don't think that the ATHLETES sold their rights to keep an on-line diary to their sponsors.