One point I have not seen made is that your host machine is "out of step" and "non-homogeneous" with windows guests. You are not exposed to Windows based exploits against your base infrastruture. ESX is not subject to "Patch Tuesdays" so you do not have to bring down all the guests and reboot the host and run the risk of a poorly QA'd path hosing your host. I guess you could vmotion them, but why use GSX and buy add-on capability that is bundled with VI3? With the new boot from iSCSI in ESX 3.0 life can get even easier for a even a medioum size shop.
Tracking the download down on the army.mil search was useless. A web search with http://vivisomo.com/ got me the pertinent links, should have used it from the get-go.
Don't know anything about how one version is different from another but you can get 'em here:
AA:Special Forces (Direct Action) Vesion 2.5 http://www.army.com/games/aa/
"The examiner bears the initial burden of factually supporting any prima facie conclusion of obviousness. If the examiner does not produce a prima facie case, the applicant is under no obligation to submit evidence of nonobviousness...the examiner must then make a determination whether the claimed invention "as a whole" would have been obvious at that time to that person."
At which they have failed miserably to date. If the MPEP is the rope of the upon which this dead and stinking albatross hangs from our necks, it needs to be changed. Because the majority of the current applications are for gaming the system and primarily to impede a competitor and/or build a defensive patent portfoliio to be bartered when accused of infringement by other weasals gaming the system. There is foul layer of "intent to deceive" underlying most of these players. There MUST be an assumption of obviousness and that an APPLICANT must present documentation showing a reasonable effort to research the absence of prior art for those aspects which they claim are novel. There should also be HEFTY PENALTIES (how about their last patent released to the public domain.) when that research is shown to be wilfully deficient.
In an ideal world, as concieved by our founding fathers, patents served a useful purpose for both the SMALL inventor and the public, it has not scaled well to todays flood of bogus concepts. Without a complete and total overhaul (unlikely) it no longer serves its intended purpose because it was predicated on honest and straight forward application submitted by inventors raised on a tradition of honor and ethics, both of which are usually lacking in the modern corporate person.
I am afraid that the analogy with plumbers and carpenters is still very much apropos, to a 'person of ordinary skill in the art' 'the claimed invention "as a whole" would have been obvious'. That rise/run is equally applicable in stairs as well as roofs or that it takes 4 elbow joints to route around an obstacle are (pardon the double negative) not non-obvious concepts.
Au Contraire, I too am a frikin' genius, if IQ measurements mean anything (not much to me). Top 0.5% of the nation if you prefer that reference point, whoop-te-do. Little innovation out there and certainly none in the software patents granted to date, your attitude does disrespect to the millions of professionals who solve their work-a-day challenges without trying to soak the public at large every time they flush the toilet installed or open the door that was hung. I doubt they can manage to create something that is not using "methods and concepts" already detailed by Donald Knuth decades before, can you say prior art? Patents were originally for novel and original ARTIFACTS wherein a substantial amount of work over the course of months or years an INVENTOR (not some morally deficient business like the current HP or MS getting assignments for the trivial crap with which they flood and game the system) worked to get the pieces ready for manufacture and assembly and was rightly due a limited protection to re-coup on those efforts. Software qualifies for none of that. It is really quite simple if you can't kick it, you can't patent it. The current patent system and the way the corporate persons weasel around the true spirit and intent with "broad claims" with specifics sufficient to avoid only the most blatant prior art borders on criminal. If the system worked as concieved, patents would be truly valuble to the public, in reality they are an albatross about our neck, primarily benefitting the already rich, oh and the parasit^Wlawyers and rarely rewarding the true inventors.
copyright laws aren't sufficient to protect software inventions
Sorry, I have been coding for over thirty years there is NO "invention" taking place in that process any more than a plumbers or carpenters solution to a tricky bathroom remodeling around a basement support pole is patentable. Solving these issues can be done by any competent practitioner, similar coding would be created by a majority of the programming community given a correctly defined problem. I.E. what we do is OBVIOUS and NOT patentable. Despite the ignorant opinion of a Judge, there is nothing patentable in any piece of code in and of itself. If the USPTO had a history of correctly, consistantly and properly doing their job, I might concede that its possible that when software is intimately embedded in a physical device that such a device in its entirety might be patentable, but it would have to be something non-obvious and provably absent of prior art, and not just "with a computer" or "over the internet" of some other solution. We in the US are already inundated with big business garbage sliding down THAT slippery slope and software patents have proven to be a decision whose negatives far outweigh the positives.
Every distribution should have a check box for "vanilla16" or at least "vanilla256" that turns off ALL the silly GUI animation, color gradiations, etc and is repected by all the applications. I don't need 40bit color space and spinning logos to write an email or code a script.
Am I the only one that rushed to my browser to see who had nain.com, or, especially amusing, nain.org? Definitely added to my "four letter words that befuddle" list. Been using the nivenesque "futz" for decades.
Of all the games in a casino to play Blackjack has the highest odds of winning.
What exactly are those "highest odds"?
How easy is it to achieve a level of proficiency enabling one to consistantly make those odds? What kind of bankroll does one need at a Vegas or Boardwalk casino minimum? roulette BTW is about 18% against you, 38 red/black and 0/00 green, not very good. With craps one can bring the odds to 1.41 against me and all I have to remember is 3/4/5 and mirrored 5/4/3 across the "point" numbers on the table to and to bet 3 of my unit, $1 on a $2 limit table (rarely seen in a busy casino), $2 on a $5 limit (you have to double the 3/4/5 bets if you use $1 chips, but with a little practice most peple can multiply by two), or $5 on a $10 limit (or $4 & multiply by 3, but if you're willing to bet $12 what's the big difference to bet $15). I recommend a minimum of 200 times you unit i.e. $200 for $1 unit $1K for $5. I've done smaller bankrolls ($500/5), but it affects your psychology when it starts getting low and you start betting 'scared' money, taking most of the fun out of it. Two other points. I'm there for entertainment, not to win and set your limits, if I'm up 30% or down 50% over two passes, walk away. This is not really a rant to the parent as much as caution to the neophyte seeing a blanket statement like that, without any real world examples of the costs and the risks. If you are going to gamble, be an educated gambler. I learned most of this over 20 years ago and honed my betting skills on an apple ][ basic program (Mr. G, if you're out there THANX). I do not have any current references that teach this "method", guess I'll have to do some browsing at the book store.
It isn't an Illinois court, it's a federal district court that happens to be in Illinois.
Whew, living in Illinois I was worried about our excessive contribution to juduicial idiocy. But since it is federal then it's really the fault of "Da Bush". Since I didn't vote for the moron/sock-puppet (choose one), I am not responsible.
Search for it, authord.com is apprently dead or broken. Not affiliated with them, have used it for a couple years. Does NOT integrate with AD. Keeps a local list of users/categories/groups you can assign access levels and if they (or their group) are not assigned to the category or their access level is too low, they do not even see the entries. Windows only, written in VB, $129 for 10 users. I haven't found any viable open source alternatives. We put the the executable and database on a network share (no registry keys!!), it stores the personal preferences (window size, position, etc) in My documents. Individual logins, radius, MIIS sync are all superior alternatives, of course, but this is quick, affordably priced and reasonably secure.
Alternatives you might want to look at:
MIIS with foreign export (LDAP, flat file, Novell, etc) is like $25K per processor. However it is free between AD stores including Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM). One drawback is that you cant debug it with VS2005, you have to use older version. Even then I was not successful, the project has been de-emphazised so I haven't had a chance to set it all up again and reporduce the issue with M$ support. What you might be able to do is combine the free MIIS and the *ix support in 2003 Server R2 to push passwords from AD to a *ix LDAP and sync the non-MS with the LDAP. I wonder if they are thinking about this in the SAMBAv4 development. It'd be a kick to see them outfox M$ highway robbery. MIIS FAQ http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/miis2 003/evaluation/faqs/default.mspx
The removal of incompetent Pointy Haired Bureaucrats (sorry for the redundancy) would be of immense benefit. Major select selection criteria would be:
1) running a Windows operating system
2) recommending any MS application in a security sensitive enviroment
What if the algorithm were encoded INCOMPLETELY, since it is not the math described in the patent it should be non-infringing. The player probably already has a small amount of flash memory, the consumer "enables" the player by entering the missing pieces to complete the calculation and those entries are stored in flash. Would an end user be immune to patent issues to "construct" a device for personal use?
* it doesn't virtualze
* it does not run on IBM/HP/DELL blades
* Boot from SAN support? (since the above are true, not much point to research this point in depth?)
VMware ESX (or Xen for an all Linux environment) on IBM AMD Socket F dual core (quad upgrageable) blades booting from a SAN (i.e. no hard disk (no moving parts) on the blade). Expensive, in dollars I'll grant, but there is quite a bit of value of being to script, install, maintain and run an entire datacenter from your desk, slashing the payroll by 2/3 or just letting the current administrators scale back to a normal 40 hour week. Until Apple is able to integrate into this type of enviroment it will never be suitable for anything but the small business niche where scalability, growth and datacenter administration tools are not missed.
Slashdot Mirror
General available in August. Meant for DDR2 Opteron with Picifa virtualiztion chips.
One point I have not seen made is that your host machine is "out of step" and "non-homogeneous" with windows guests. You are not exposed to Windows based exploits against your base infrastruture. ESX is not subject to "Patch Tuesdays" so you do not have to bring down all the guests and reboot the host and run the risk of a poorly QA'd path hosing your host. I guess you could vmotion them, but why use GSX and buy add-on capability that is bundled with VI3? With the new boot from iSCSI in ESX 3.0 life can get even easier for a even a medioum size shop.
Another free game, never played it. http://www.army.mil/fcs/f2c2/index.html
Tracking the download down on the army.mil search was useless. A web search with http://vivisomo.com/ got me the pertinent links, should have used it from the get-go.
Don't know anything about how one version is different from another but you can get 'em here:
AA:Special Forces (Direct Action) Vesion 2.5
http://www.army.com/games/aa/
America's Army: Special Forces (Overmatch) v2.7
http://www.americasarmy.com/downloads/
from MPEP 2142 http://www.bitlaw.com/source/mpep/2142.html At which they have failed miserably to date. If the MPEP is the rope of the upon which this dead and stinking albatross hangs from our necks, it needs to be changed. Because the majority of the current applications are for gaming the system and primarily to impede a competitor and/or build a defensive patent portfoliio to be bartered when accused of infringement by other weasals gaming the system. There is foul layer of "intent to deceive" underlying most of these players. There MUST be an assumption of obviousness and that an APPLICANT must present documentation showing a reasonable effort to research the absence of prior art for those aspects which they claim are novel. There should also be HEFTY PENALTIES (how about their last patent released to the public domain.) when that research is shown to be wilfully deficient.
In an ideal world, as concieved by our founding fathers, patents served a useful purpose for both the SMALL inventor and the public, it has not scaled well to todays flood of bogus concepts. Without a complete and total overhaul (unlikely) it no longer serves its intended purpose because it was predicated on honest and straight forward application submitted by inventors raised on a tradition of honor and ethics, both of which are usually lacking in the modern corporate person.
I am afraid that the analogy with plumbers and carpenters is still very much apropos, to a 'person of ordinary skill in the art' 'the claimed invention "as a whole" would have been obvious'. That rise/run is equally applicable in stairs as well as roofs or that it takes 4 elbow joints to route around an obstacle are (pardon the double negative) not non-obvious concepts.
Maybe not, but it's certainly the way to bet. In proximity to a politician, when you hear hooves think Satan not zebras.
The only thing worse than no government is an effcient government.
Au Contraire, I too am a frikin' genius, if IQ measurements mean anything (not much to me). Top 0.5% of the nation if you prefer that reference point, whoop-te-do. Little innovation out there and certainly none in the software patents granted to date, your attitude does disrespect to the millions of professionals who solve their work-a-day challenges without trying to soak the public at large every time they flush the toilet installed or open the door that was hung. I doubt they can manage to create something that is not using "methods and concepts" already detailed by Donald Knuth decades before, can you say prior art? Patents were originally for novel and original ARTIFACTS wherein a substantial amount of work over the course of months or years an INVENTOR (not some morally deficient business like the current HP or MS getting assignments for the trivial crap with which they flood and game the system) worked to get the pieces ready for manufacture and assembly and was rightly due a limited protection to re-coup on those efforts. Software qualifies for none of that. It is really quite simple if you can't kick it, you can't patent it. The current patent system and the way the corporate persons weasel around the true spirit and intent with "broad claims" with specifics sufficient to avoid only the most blatant prior art borders on criminal. If the system worked as concieved, patents would be truly valuble to the public, in reality they are an albatross about our neck, primarily benefitting the already rich, oh and the parasit^Wlawyers and rarely rewarding the true inventors.
Despite the ignorant opinion of a Judge, there is nothing patentable in any piece of code in and of itself. If the USPTO had a history of correctly, consistantly and properly doing their job, I might concede that its possible that when software is intimately embedded in a physical device that such a device in its entirety might be patentable, but it would have to be something non-obvious and provably absent of prior art, and not just "with a computer" or "over the internet" of some other solution. We in the US are already inundated with big business garbage sliding down THAT slippery slope and software patents have proven to be a decision whose negatives far outweigh the positives.
Every distribution should have a check box for "vanilla16" or at least "vanilla256" that turns off ALL the silly GUI animation, color gradiations, etc and is repected by all the applications. I don't need 40bit color space and spinning logos to write an email or code a script.
Am I the only one that rushed to my browser to see who had nain.com, or, especially amusing, nain.org?
Definitely added to my "four letter words that befuddle" list. Been using the nivenesque "futz" for decades.
How easy is it to achieve a level of proficiency enabling one to consistantly make those odds?
What kind of bankroll does one need at a Vegas or Boardwalk casino minimum?
roulette BTW is about 18% against you, 38 red/black and 0/00 green, not very good.
With craps one can bring the odds to 1.41 against me and all I have to remember is 3/4/5 and mirrored 5/4/3 across the "point" numbers on the table to and to bet 3 of my unit, $1 on a $2 limit table (rarely seen in a busy casino), $2 on a $5 limit (you have to double the 3/4/5 bets if you use $1 chips, but with a little practice most peple can multiply by two), or $5 on a $10 limit (or $4 & multiply by 3, but if you're willing to bet $12 what's the big difference to bet $15). I recommend a minimum of 200 times you unit i.e. $200 for $1 unit $1K for $5. I've done smaller bankrolls ($500/5), but it affects your psychology when it starts getting low and you start betting 'scared' money, taking most of the fun out of it. Two other points. I'm there for entertainment, not to win and set your limits, if I'm up 30% or down 50% over two passes, walk away.
This is not really a rant to the parent as much as caution to the neophyte seeing a blanket statement like that, without any real world examples of the costs and the risks. If you are going to gamble, be an educated gambler. I learned most of this over 20 years ago and honed my betting skills on an apple ][ basic program (Mr. G, if you're out there THANX). I do not have any current references that teach this "method", guess I'll have to do some browsing at the book store.
Google reports 1150m at the top.
Vivisimo reports 588
and http://www.nashville.gov/finance/cafr99/a18_21.ht
Search for it, authord.com is apprently dead or broken. Not affiliated with them, have used it for a couple years. Does NOT integrate with AD. Keeps a local list of users/categories/groups you can assign access levels and if they (or their group) are not assigned to the category or their access level is too low, they do not even see the entries. Windows only, written in VB, $129 for 10 users. I haven't found any viable open source alternatives.
We put the the executable and database on a network share (no registry keys!!), it stores the personal preferences (window size, position, etc) in My documents.
Individual logins, radius, MIIS sync are all superior alternatives, of course, but this is quick, affordably priced and reasonably secure.
Alternatives you might want to look at:
pGina http://www.pgina.org/?page_id=3 Master your passwords on a platform other than AD for your central identity store.
AcctSync, doen not appear to be actively developed, it has not had any news posted in about 18 months. https://sourceforge.net/projects/acctsync/
PSync http://www.psynch.com/, commercial, no pricing on their site (schmucks).
MIIS with foreign export (LDAP, flat file, Novell, etc) is like $25K per processor. However it is free between AD stores including Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM). One drawback is that you cant debug it with VS2005, you have to use older version. Even then I was not successful, the project has been de-emphazised so I haven't had a chance to set it all up again and reporduce the issue with M$ support.2 003/evaluation/faqs/default.mspx
What you might be able to do is combine the free MIIS and the *ix support in 2003 Server R2 to push passwords from AD to a *ix LDAP and sync the non-MS with the LDAP.
I wonder if they are thinking about this in the SAMBAv4 development. It'd be a kick to see them outfox M$ highway robbery.
MIIS FAQ http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/miis
Ted, is that you?
The removal of incompetent Pointy Haired Bureaucrats (sorry for the redundancy) would be of immense benefit. Major select selection criteria would be:
1) running a Windows operating system
2) recommending any MS application in a security sensitive enviroment
Having not RTFA, I assume there is a total lack of representation by any F500 company
Funny dont get me no karma, pls mod this as inromative or insightful. Thanx.
What if the algorithm were encoded INCOMPLETELY, since it is not the math described in the patent it should be non-infringing. The player probably already has a small amount of flash memory, the consumer "enables" the player by entering the missing pieces to complete the calculation and those entries are stored in flash. Would an end user be immune to patent issues to "construct" a device for personal use?
is an oxymoron,it is common knwoledge that marketing, like it's evil twin sales, is performed by droids or dweebs.
would you imagine he would say "Please"?
Let's add the big Enterprise tick boxes:
* it doesn't virtualze
* it does not run on IBM/HP/DELL blades
* Boot from SAN support? (since the above are true, not much point to research this point in depth?)
VMware ESX (or Xen for an all Linux environment) on IBM AMD Socket F dual core (quad upgrageable) blades booting from a SAN (i.e. no hard disk (no moving parts) on the blade). Expensive, in dollars I'll grant, but there is quite a bit of value of being to script, install, maintain and run an entire datacenter from your desk, slashing the payroll by 2/3 or just letting the current administrators scale back to a normal 40 hour week. Until Apple is able to integrate into this type of enviroment it will never be suitable for anything but the small business niche where scalability, growth and datacenter administration tools are not missed.