umm, the leaking capacitors were made by a Taiwanese company that stole the wrong formula from their Japanese competitors. It was a classic case of let someone else do you work for you, then steal it and profit. Whoops!.
Heck, I've used Mozilla since 1.2 for pretty much everything. With the exception of Test Director, which uses Active X and therefore requires IE, and one page at work which has bad JavaScript and works in IE.
The biggest problem with SCRAM jet tech is that the faster the plane moves, the longer the combustion chamber has to be to get the benefits of combustion, since you can only slow down the inflow so much. I don't exactly recall the numbers of the top of my head, but 18 ft seems to ring a bell for combustion chamber length at somewhere around Mach 5 (could have been faster, don't recall). That is not inclusive intake and exhaust nozzles. This presents issues as the combustion chamber length has to be dynamic with speed.
Are you guys trolling? Who the hell doesn't know how this movie ends? It never was a secret. It's an epic, with no surprises (or no intended surprises) other than how well Peter Jackson modified the equivalent of 6+ novels into 3 movies totaling right around 9 hours.
(IMNSHO, there probably should have been 6 movies of about 3 hours each to even come close to the books, but the flow would have been disrupted, and the masses would have walked out bored. So PJ did an awesome job making this viewable and enjoyable for everyone.)
Lastly, it'll be highly interesting to see if PJ makes the Hobbit, and whether it'll be 1 4-5 hour movie, or two 3 hour movies.
"Protectionism" for american tax dollars, that's fine.
Protectionism for other companies - not as good, but there are many ways to do this and some are "fair" while others are not. Something to the tune of a new tax (Yikes, I said that?!?) where goods are taxed, and the company can reduce that tax by taxes paid by workers would be innovative. This could balance the needs of the economy without being all one-sided, and can be tuned. I'm sure, however, that special interests would quickly destroy any truly fair system though.
ooo - 4 IDE drives mirrored. Your performance must be blistering. Seriously, IDE Raid isn't good for much, other than making bigger slow partitions, or for continuous redundancy.
My 300GB Raid5 array (for a whole $200) is Scsi III, and smokes. I can rip, burn, edit video, compile code all simultaneously without having any single app dominate the drive system. Try copying 500MB files on your RAID while burning a CD. See what happens.
To be fair, I do have a IDE system as well, and they're very close. The funny thing is that momentarily, the IDE system is running with a P4, while the SCSI system is running with a Celeron (same speed). The celeron system is noticably faster in all disk bound tasks. I haven't bothered switching the CPUs yet, but plan to shortly.
A side letter clarifying the parties' understanding of the Software Agreement, also dated February 1, 1985, states (in paragraph A.2) that:
Regarding Section 2.01, we [AT&T] agree that modifications and derivative works prepared by or for you [IBM] are owned by you. However, ownership of any portion or portions of SOFTWARE PRODUCTS included in any such modification or derivative work remains with us.
The agreements between AT&T and IBM, as amended, including the side letter (the "Agreements"), thus provide for a straightforward allocation of rights: (1) AT&T retained ownership of its code from the Software Products ("AT&T Code"), and the Agreements' restrictions on confidentiality and use apply to the AT&T Code, whether in its original form or as incorporated in a modification or derivative work, but (2) IBM retained ownership of its own code, and the Agreements' restrictions on confidentiality and use do not apply to that code so long as it does not embody any AT&T Code.
I found that quite interesting, mainly that this appears to directly contradict SCO's claim that they own all AIX code as it is derived from "their IP"
How about FTP'ing large files from remote locations, and reading/processing/editing such files while the transfer is in progress?
Technically, the FTP process is a "stream", and the read/process/edit operation goes one step beyond what TIVO claims in their patent... so perhaps I should patent that? After all, I was doing this in 1990 with 100MB+ model files coming from a remote supercomputer. Since we didn't want to wait for the entire download to occur prior to figuring out whether the data was good, we concurrently processed the "stream" during download.
The only difference between that process, and Tivo's patent is that Tivo calls their stream "realtime", and it applies to Multimedia data. Big deal. It's still a data-stream representing encoded "realtime" analog signals, so "realtime" is actually irrelevant. It could be bursts, or pretty much anything non-realtime.
And lets go for one more prior art - pictures/video sent from NASA's probes... I believe they practiced something similar, also far prior to 1998 when these patents were filed. So I hope Tivo loses these patents, as the "invention" was actually done by many others far prior to their timeline.
Umm, let's see, prior art? How about FTP'ing large files from remote locations, and reading/processing/editing such files while the transfer is in progress?
Technically, the FTP process is a "stream", and the read/process/edit operation goes one step beyond what TIVO claims in their patent... so perhaps I should patent that? After all, I was doing this in 1990 with 100MB+ model files coming from a remote supercomputer. Since we didn't want to wait for the entire download to occur prior to figuring out whether the data was good, we concurrently processed the "stream" during download.
The only difference between that process, and Tivo's patent is that Tivo calls their stream "realtime", and it applies to Multimedia data. Big deal. It's still a data-stream representing encoded "realtime" analog signals, so "realtime" is actually irrelevant. It could be bursts, or pretty much anything non-realtime.
And lets go for one more prior art - pictures/video sent from NASA's probes... I believe they practiced something similar, also far prior to 1998 when these patents were filed. So I hope Tivo loses these patents, as the "invention" was actually done by many others far prior to their timeline.
Umm, I would think the first video capture cards allowed this long before Tivo came along, boxed up existing comoponents into a slick package, and then attempted to (successfully at the moment) patent prior art.
Don't know about you, but I ran my Monster II Audio on NT and 2K until just about 1 year ago.
Those drivers were "unapproved" and "beta", but were plenty stable until 2K SP3 I believe, or maybe Direct X 8.1 - don't recall exactly when they went south.
Since then, ran on MB includeded sound, then bought an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum for $99 (yes, it's the right price, and no, you won't get the same deal, although Fry's has it for $120 after rebate right now;), and haven't looked back.
Umm - the brown cloud was quite common around Houston, TX, pre-70s. Something about just about every single petro-chemical refiner having at least one factory along the ship channel. So I'd dispute Denver as having originated that particular phrase. The running joke was that you could see the brown cloud, you were getting near Houston...
Another correction - I believe the US is accountable for 30% of greenhouse gas production - story from CNN a couple of days ago - no link though (read em and dump).
1992 or 1993. SCSI optical drive (WORM) attached to a 486. I believe it even recorded multiple sessions.
The reason multiple sessions were important? Disks were outrageously expensive.
Oh, and the entire read-write process was properietary. These disks were not readable on standard CDROMs.
And finally, there should be no patent for whimsical (or not so whimsical) ideas, only actual produced items. (ie, to actually get a patent, you have to produce a working sample. This does not preclude you from filing prior to achieving a working sample. However there should be an expiration to the patent office offer to award a patent before the next filer is able to present their working sample.)
Ideas are cheap, realization of an idea may not be.
This would predicate that "I" had any choice in the matter. We all know how PHBs can make *excellent* technical decisions.... Many choose Notes for email based on sales droid glitz, and only for email, although all that other techy type stuff makes it sound like their getting great value for their investment. (Never mind that all most invest in is IBMs consulting services...)
The end result is that many normal folks are forced to use what is unarguably the worst mail client in history. My old company decided in their great wisdom to shut all access down to just the Notes client. No other options. The 4.x client was abysmal, the 5.x client was only a hair better on the human UI side, performance sucked rocks. If you can't get a simple user interface right in 5 major revisions....
The problem is, Lotus Notes primary selling point for the past 6 or 8 years is that it IS a mail client. From the administrative perspective, it's actually a pretty good mail client compared to Exchange.
However, from the client side, Notes is a major POS. Pine, Elm, or even vi are better mail clients than Notes. (and with vi, you have to basically handle your mail manually, now that's saying something!).
To be fair, Outlook or Outlook/Exchange isn't that great either in the mail arena, but from a client side perspective, there's really nothing much better out there when you consider known interfaces and user friendliness combined with corporate mail usefulness.
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umm, the leaking capacitors were made by a Taiwanese company that stole the wrong formula from their Japanese competitors. It was a classic case of let someone else do you work for you, then steal it and profit. Whoops!.
Downloading Debian pretty much places me in the bandwidth hog arena for a while. :)
will be quickly disconnected! More bandwidth for me!
I'd rather have 1 extra than the motherboard falling out.
Heck, I've used Mozilla since 1.2 for pretty much everything. With the exception of Test Director, which uses Active X and therefore requires IE, and one page at work which has bad JavaScript and works in IE.
The biggest problem with SCRAM jet tech is that the faster the plane moves, the longer the combustion chamber has to be to get the benefits of combustion, since you can only slow down the inflow so much. I don't exactly recall the numbers of the top of my head, but 18 ft seems to ring a bell for combustion chamber length at somewhere around Mach 5 (could have been faster, don't recall). That is not inclusive intake and exhaust nozzles. This presents issues as the combustion chamber length has to be dynamic with speed.
Are you guys trolling? Who the hell doesn't know how this movie ends? It never was a secret. It's an epic, with no surprises (or no intended surprises) other than how well Peter Jackson modified the equivalent of 6+ novels into 3 movies totaling right around 9 hours.
(IMNSHO, there probably should have been 6 movies of about 3 hours each to even come close to the books, but the flow would have been disrupted, and the masses would have walked out bored. So PJ did an awesome job making this viewable and enjoyable for everyone.)
Lastly, it'll be highly interesting to see if PJ makes the Hobbit, and whether it'll be 1 4-5 hour movie, or two 3 hour movies.
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until someone sets up an html page that downloads a linux automatically installed distro? Might as well be helpful. :D
Life does go on.
"Protectionism" for american tax dollars, that's fine.
Protectionism for other companies - not as good, but there are many ways to do this and some are "fair" while others are not. Something to the tune of a new tax (Yikes, I said that?!?) where goods are taxed, and the company can reduce that tax by taxes paid by workers would be innovative. This could balance the needs of the economy without being all one-sided, and can be tuned. I'm sure, however, that special interests would quickly destroy any truly fair system though.
ooo - 4 IDE drives mirrored. Your performance must be blistering. Seriously, IDE Raid isn't good for much, other than making bigger slow partitions, or for continuous redundancy.
My 300GB Raid5 array (for a whole $200) is Scsi III, and smokes. I can rip, burn, edit video, compile code all simultaneously without having any single app dominate the drive system. Try copying 500MB files on your RAID while burning a CD. See what happens.
To be fair, I do have a IDE system as well, and they're very close. The funny thing is that momentarily, the IDE system is running with a P4, while the SCSI system is running with a Celeron (same speed). The celeron system is noticably faster in all disk bound tasks. I haven't bothered switching the CPUs yet, but plan to shortly.
The scenario: EU fines MS lots of cash, then various EU countries use it to fund their migration to Linux... (a la Munich, etc).
I found that quite interesting, mainly that this appears to directly contradict SCO's claim that they own all AIX code as it is derived from "their IP"
If you're interested in this letter, it's the Novell to SCO letter
How about FTP'ing large files from remote locations, and reading/processing/editing such files while the transfer is in progress? Technically, the FTP process is a "stream", and the read/process/edit operation goes one step beyond what TIVO claims in their patent... so perhaps I should patent that? After all, I was doing this in 1990 with 100MB+ model files coming from a remote supercomputer. Since we didn't want to wait for the entire download to occur prior to figuring out whether the data was good, we concurrently processed the "stream" during download. The only difference between that process, and Tivo's patent is that Tivo calls their stream "realtime", and it applies to Multimedia data. Big deal. It's still a data-stream representing encoded "realtime" analog signals, so "realtime" is actually irrelevant. It could be bursts, or pretty much anything non-realtime. And lets go for one more prior art - pictures/video sent from NASA's probes... I believe they practiced something similar, also far prior to 1998 when these patents were filed. So I hope Tivo loses these patents, as the "invention" was actually done by many others far prior to their timeline.
Umm, let's see, prior art? How about FTP'ing large files from remote locations, and reading/processing/editing such files while the transfer is in progress?
Technically, the FTP process is a "stream", and the read/process/edit operation goes one step beyond what TIVO claims in their patent... so perhaps I should patent that? After all, I was doing this in 1990 with 100MB+ model files coming from a remote supercomputer. Since we didn't want to wait for the entire download to occur prior to figuring out whether the data was good, we concurrently processed the "stream" during download.
The only difference between that process, and Tivo's patent is that Tivo calls their stream "realtime", and it applies to Multimedia data. Big deal. It's still a data-stream representing encoded "realtime" analog signals, so "realtime" is actually irrelevant. It could be bursts, or pretty much anything non-realtime.
And lets go for one more prior art - pictures/video sent from NASA's probes... I believe they practiced something similar, also far prior to 1998 when these patents were filed. So I hope Tivo loses these patents, as the "invention" was actually done by many others far prior to their timeline.
check any professional dual deck editing rig in the 80s.... Oh yeah, those did run about 10-15K at the time - a real consumer item!
Umm, I would think the first video capture cards allowed this long before Tivo came along, boxed up existing comoponents into a slick package, and then attempted to (successfully at the moment) patent prior art.
Sounds a lot better than "web turd" too....
Don't know about you, but I ran my Monster II Audio on NT and 2K until just about 1 year ago.
Those drivers were "unapproved" and "beta", but were plenty stable until 2K SP3 I believe, or maybe Direct X 8.1 - don't recall exactly when they went south.
Since then, ran on MB includeded sound, then bought an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum for $99 (yes, it's the right price, and no, you won't get the same deal, although Fry's has it for $120 after rebate right now;), and haven't looked back.
Another correction - I believe the US is accountable for 30% of greenhouse gas production - story from CNN a couple of days ago - no link though (read em and dump).
The reason multiple sessions were important? Disks were outrageously expensive.
Oh, and the entire read-write process was properietary. These disks were not readable on standard CDROMs.
And finally, there should be no patent for whimsical (or not so whimsical) ideas, only actual produced items. (ie, to actually get a patent, you have to produce a working sample. This does not preclude you from filing prior to achieving a working sample. However there should be an expiration to the patent office offer to award a patent before the next filer is able to present their working sample.)Ideas are cheap, realization of an idea may not be.
This would predicate that "I" had any choice in the matter. We all know how PHBs can make *excellent* technical decisions.... Many choose Notes for email based on sales droid glitz, and only for email, although all that other techy type stuff makes it sound like their getting great value for their investment. (Never mind that all most invest in is IBMs consulting services...) The end result is that many normal folks are forced to use what is unarguably the worst mail client in history. My old company decided in their great wisdom to shut all access down to just the Notes client. No other options. The 4.x client was abysmal, the 5.x client was only a hair better on the human UI side, performance sucked rocks. If you can't get a simple user interface right in 5 major revisions....
The problem is, Lotus Notes primary selling point for the past 6 or 8 years is that it IS a mail client. From the administrative perspective, it's actually a pretty good mail client compared to Exchange. However, from the client side, Notes is a major POS. Pine, Elm, or even vi are better mail clients than Notes. (and with vi, you have to basically handle your mail manually, now that's saying something!). To be fair, Outlook or Outlook/Exchange isn't that great either in the mail arena, but from a client side perspective, there's really nothing much better out there when you consider known interfaces and user friendliness combined with corporate mail usefulness.
adding random crap is not a language....