Unless you have some significant amount of money, and unless they have some kind of significant infringement claim, if neither of those are true, then you really have nothing for them to go after, combined with the fact that the patent expires soon, this seems like a desperate act. If they won't go after a business with a large amount of money, that should say a lot. If they are only looking for a quick settlement, then I agree with some of the previous posters, hire an experienced patent attorney to send them a strong Denial + Fuck You letter. Expect to pay for some 5 hours of attorney time for them to review the patent, your company, and develop some basic strategy should you get sued in the future. The letter may need to be written with a strategy in mind. These attorneys typically cost $275 to $500 per hour, and you may need one in your state, or in the state of Delaware.
Don't ignore them, if they do file a lawsuit, you want your record to show your consistent position from the very beginning. The patent details generic principles as applied to 1980s phone modem technology, it's not exactly a slam-dunk for them and if they aren't suing big guys with deep pockets, it's because they have little go on and they are looking for guys who are scared into quick settlement. They want to make $10,000 while paying for $275 of attorney time themselves. If that's the true situation, then Denial + Fuck You is going to be the end of the harassment. If they have deep pockets and are looking for blood, you are probably one of many being sued and the attorneys will waste your time and money for months or years to come. I'd say good luck, but who the fuck wants to hear that?
Physical vs psychological addictiveness is mostly a sham. Shades of grey. Any psychoactive substance can and will be addictive to someone, depending on their intentions. The families, the society, its values (and economic design) are going to control the approach and intention that people take to drugs, legal or otherwise. And a society where drugs are regularly used past the point of mental and physical safety has problems that legalization nor prohibition are going to improve. Only people wising up will fix the damage that overuse of drugs (too often and/or too much) causes.. And once people get into the habit of using too much and/or too often, it's very hard to fix that, without abstaining. That is why prohibition is the easiest model in modern society. The legalization model that doesn't allow commercial promotion of drugs, and that treats addiction as a medical disease (not a criminal one) is the appropriate one for modern society in my opinion.
Please provide a reference that supports accelerated "bath salt" brain damage.
Methamphetamine, not a "bath salt", is such a strong dopamine releasing agent, a single 50mg IV dose causes permanent, irreversible brain changes. Lesions. Holes. Guess what happens to the bright individuals who stay up for days on repeated doses of IV methamphetamine?
NDRI "bath salts" are likely somewhere between cocaine and methamphetamine in safety, cocaine being considered much safer.
The real problem is providing pure drugs to idiots. The idiots will always "win". Charlie sheen was winning!
OpenBSD is getting faster all the time. And the "it just works" mentality continues to make it a pleasure to use. At some point you'll see KMS X driver support, and it will be a serious desktop contender.
Ahh, yes, such a pleasing decision. Now your company has no expectation of privacy, any prosecutor can write a warrant without so much as a judge's approval to sift through your company's data, at will. No longer your property, so you have no expectation of privacy, that's the prevailing legal interpretation today.
No, if you have questions about ethernet or other devices, you look at the PCI device IDs and revisions and compare them to the supported ones in your drivers. And you look for other people and see what kernel versions they successfully run on the same model motherboard.
People are constantly supporting newer hardware in open source systems, but yeah you might have to wait a month to turn up that brand new intel chipset or whatever. Big deal. If you don't want to rely on bleeding edge hardware support, don't buy brand new designs.
Intel motherboards are mostly manufactured by Foxconn (Hon Hai). And many other brands, too. What is more important is which chipset, how good is the supporting infrastructure, and many boards use better capacitors and chips and so forth, these days. Buying something that is super-cheap and comes with low quality components is a mistake if you want longevity. But that isn't tied to the brand name, not really...
No. The best way to get a better driver for an open source system is typically to update your god damn driver from the newer kernel which probably already supports the newer variation of the chip. Vendor drivers? usually total junk.
8168 and 8111 are different versions of the same chip that use the same driver. You just need a newer version of the driver for the 8111, because it's basically a newer revision of the 8168. Not exactly hard to figure out.
Or just keep your kernel up-to-date and don't depend on your 2 year old distribution CD to come with the latest drivers. Open source kernels are typically very good at supporting new hardware. Sometimes you have to wait 12 months for someone to get a stable driver for some really new shit. Otherwise, you just have to install some NEW software to use your NEW hardware.
TCP offload engine...for gaming? It's for high-speed file transfer on 1 and 10GbE TCP usage, iSCSI performance mostly. At a few hundred Kbps, or even 10Mbps, it is 100% wholly irrelevant. The goal of these technologies is to keep the CPU from being saturated at thousands of Mbps. Oh, and by the way, gaming traffic is often UDP.
so, you had a new realtek GbE chip that wasn't yet supported by the old realtek driver? so what? copy a new kernel, done deal dude. not rocket science. it's not like this hasn't been the case since for, oh, i dunno, EVERY TIME THE PCI DEVICE ID CHANGES ON SOME NEW ON-BOARD CHIP?
All the bullshit argument on here is mind-boggling. I run a company that is the SECOND CLEC in the ENTIRE FUCKING STATE OF OREGON to EVER connect to remote (non-Central Office) cross-connects. We are self funded. And we're one of two companies in Oregon that lease copper to rural homes, but don't own it. All this mental masturbation about free market vs. state organized is COMPLETE BULLSHIT or BRILLIANT, either-or.
NOBODY else can serve some addresses that we can serve. It all comes down to people doing the actual FUCKING WORK to string the physical infrastructure to the end user. EVERYTHING ELSE IS TOTAL BULLSHIT. NOBODY leases copper lines out of non-CO cross connects in ALL OF OREGON except for our tiny company which found a way to serve certain remote cross-connects in Central Oregon, and Douglas Fast Net out of Roseburg.
Why do I point this out? GET OFF YOUR FUCKING ASSES AND START DOING THE FUCKING WORK. ALL OTHER CLECs are simply colocating in downtown Central Offices and milking business phone lines for all they're worth. They SKIM PROFITABLE BUSINESS SERVICE AND DO NOTHING TO REACH RESIDENTIAL CONSUMERS.
The CLECs are FAT AND LAZY. The ILECs are LOCKING THEM OUT OF ACCESS to DARK FIBER as per 2003/2004 FCC TRO/TRRO. AND RIGHTLY SO.
If anyone with both the technical and construction skills comes around to provide competitive service, or any service, support them.
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Unless you have some significant amount of money, and unless they have some kind of significant infringement claim, if neither of those are true, then you really have nothing for them to go after, combined with the fact that the patent expires soon, this seems like a desperate act. If they won't go after a business with a large amount of money, that should say a lot. If they are only looking for a quick settlement, then I agree with some of the previous posters, hire an experienced patent attorney to send them a strong Denial + Fuck You letter. Expect to pay for some 5 hours of attorney time for them to review the patent, your company, and develop some basic strategy should you get sued in the future. The letter may need to be written with a strategy in mind. These attorneys typically cost $275 to $500 per hour, and you may need one in your state, or in the state of Delaware.
Don't ignore them, if they do file a lawsuit, you want your record to show your consistent position from the very beginning. The patent details generic principles as applied to 1980s phone modem technology, it's not exactly a slam-dunk for them and if they aren't suing big guys with deep pockets, it's because they have little go on and they are looking for guys who are scared into quick settlement. They want to make $10,000 while paying for $275 of attorney time themselves. If that's the true situation, then Denial + Fuck You is going to be the end of the harassment. If they have deep pockets and are looking for blood, you are probably one of many being sued and the attorneys will waste your time and money for months or years to come. I'd say good luck, but who the fuck wants to hear that?
and spend several tens of thousands of dollars doing it. perfect for a sole proprietorship, small business!!! great idea!!!!!!
mp3 is based on a series of patents, one of which doesn't expire until 2017
in any event, the troll can sue for supposed infringement which occurred prior to the expiration, even after it expires
Physical vs psychological addictiveness is mostly a sham. Shades of grey. Any psychoactive substance can and will be addictive to someone, depending on their intentions. The families, the society, its values (and economic design) are going to control the approach and intention that people take to drugs, legal or otherwise. And a society where drugs are regularly used past the point of mental and physical safety has problems that legalization nor prohibition are going to improve. Only people wising up will fix the damage that overuse of drugs (too often and/or too much) causes.. And once people get into the habit of using too much and/or too often, it's very hard to fix that, without abstaining. That is why prohibition is the easiest model in modern society. The legalization model that doesn't allow commercial promotion of drugs, and that treats addiction as a medical disease (not a criminal one) is the appropriate one for modern society in my opinion.
Please provide a reference that supports accelerated "bath salt" brain damage.
Methamphetamine, not a "bath salt", is such a strong dopamine releasing agent, a single 50mg IV dose causes permanent, irreversible brain changes. Lesions. Holes. Guess what happens to the bright individuals who stay up for days on repeated doses of IV methamphetamine?
NDRI "bath salts" are likely somewhere between cocaine and methamphetamine in safety, cocaine being considered much safer.
The real problem is providing pure drugs to idiots. The idiots will always "win". Charlie sheen was winning!
Fuck apple. Franklin Ace 1000 FOREVER!!!!
bullshit. the situation and the person -combined- drive the outcome.
OpenBSD is getting faster all the time. And the "it just works" mentality continues to make it a pleasure to use. At some point you'll see KMS X driver support, and it will be a serious desktop contender.
And there's the 8139C+ which is an 8168 with its performance improvements, that runs at 100Mbps.
Ahh, yes, such a pleasing decision. Now your company has no expectation of privacy, any prosecutor can write a warrant without so much as a judge's approval to sift through your company's data, at will. No longer your property, so you have no expectation of privacy, that's the prevailing legal interpretation today.
Get over yourself. Bugs should be fixed, especially BIOS bugs. Can't run Flash or Skype? Are you fucking kidding me?
So, Ubuntu is the Amazon advertising tool. Linux is just a kernel. Run OpenBSD, it's better anyways.
Uhh, reviews?
No, if you have questions about ethernet or other devices, you look at the PCI device IDs and revisions and compare them to the supported ones in your drivers. And you look for other people and see what kernel versions they successfully run on the same model motherboard.
People are constantly supporting newer hardware in open source systems, but yeah you might have to wait a month to turn up that brand new intel chipset or whatever. Big deal. If you don't want to rely on bleeding edge hardware support, don't buy brand new designs.
Intel motherboards are mostly manufactured by Foxconn (Hon Hai). And many other brands, too. What is more important is which chipset, how good is the supporting infrastructure, and many boards use better capacitors and chips and so forth, these days. Buying something that is super-cheap and comes with low quality components is a mistake if you want longevity. But that isn't tied to the brand name, not really...
I have heard good things about GCC's ability to compile an updated driver.
No. The best way to get a better driver for an open source system is typically to update your god damn driver from the newer kernel which probably already supports the newer variation of the chip. Vendor drivers? usually total junk.
Blah, blah, blah. You're an idiot.
Return the motherboard? Why not just update your kernel so that you get a driver that supports the newer chip?
8168 and 8111 are different versions of the same chip that use the same driver. You just need a newer version of the driver for the 8111, because it's basically a newer revision of the 8168. Not exactly hard to figure out.
Or just keep your kernel up-to-date and don't depend on your 2 year old distribution CD to come with the latest drivers. Open source kernels are typically very good at supporting new hardware. Sometimes you have to wait 12 months for someone to get a stable driver for some really new shit. Otherwise, you just have to install some NEW software to use your NEW hardware.
TCP offload engine...for gaming? It's for high-speed file transfer on 1 and 10GbE TCP usage, iSCSI performance mostly. At a few hundred Kbps, or even 10Mbps, it is 100% wholly irrelevant. The goal of these technologies is to keep the CPU from being saturated at thousands of Mbps. Oh, and by the way, gaming traffic is often UDP.
so, you had a new realtek GbE chip that wasn't yet supported by the old realtek driver? so what? copy a new kernel, done deal dude. not rocket science. it's not like this hasn't been the case since for, oh, i dunno, EVERY TIME THE PCI DEVICE ID CHANGES ON SOME NEW ON-BOARD CHIP?
I marvel at how you think you even know what the fuck you're talking about. You sound like an utter moron.
All the bullshit argument on here is mind-boggling. I run a company that is the SECOND CLEC in the ENTIRE FUCKING STATE OF OREGON to EVER connect to remote (non-Central Office) cross-connects. We are self funded. And we're one of two companies in Oregon that lease copper to rural homes, but don't own it. All this mental masturbation about free market vs. state organized is COMPLETE BULLSHIT or BRILLIANT, either-or.
NOBODY else can serve some addresses that we can serve. It all comes down to people doing the actual FUCKING WORK to string the physical infrastructure to the end user. EVERYTHING ELSE IS TOTAL BULLSHIT. NOBODY leases copper lines out of non-CO cross connects in ALL OF OREGON except for our tiny company which found a way to serve certain remote cross-connects in Central Oregon, and Douglas Fast Net out of Roseburg.
Why do I point this out? GET OFF YOUR FUCKING ASSES AND START DOING THE FUCKING WORK. ALL OTHER CLECs are simply colocating in downtown Central Offices and milking business phone lines for all they're worth. They SKIM PROFITABLE BUSINESS SERVICE AND DO NOTHING TO REACH RESIDENTIAL CONSUMERS.
The CLECs are FAT AND LAZY. The ILECs are LOCKING THEM OUT OF ACCESS to DARK FIBER as per 2003/2004 FCC TRO/TRRO. AND RIGHTLY SO.
If anyone with both the technical and construction skills comes around to provide competitive service, or any service, support them.
As soon as some government attorney decides OpenDNS could face a criminal or civil penalty, their "refusal to filter" will disappear.