Actually there were a few tape recorders in cars. One was a double-cassette recorder made by a Tiawanese company and put out by JC Whitney and CO. I know - I had one. It even had a microphone input on the front.
The problem with tape recorders in cars - at least when I had mine - was vibration. I couldn't record anything really without a lot of engine/road noise as well as wow and flutter in the tape when played back.
Also, isn't 50 million photos going to take up a crapload of space?
Wasn't this the sort of thing that multi-terabyte database is being created for? Sounds like they want photos to help cross-reference tracking data. They could probably easily overlay the photos onto a 3D tracking framework if they had enough horsepower.
If he wanted to go this route he could purchase a laptop with a cracked screen.
What you could then do is remove the screen completely. Configure the system to boot an OS of choice, make a sound when it has booted and loaded a text editor, and then use keyboard commands to shut it down.
If the APM is working right he could suspend it from the keyboard. It would probably run a fair amount longer without having to power the backlight or LCD panel.
Then, when he get's home, he plugs it into an external monitor and network connection or whatnot to edit and download his notes.
In all seriousness does anybody else see this as an attempt to lock in an approved set of wireless equipment and keep people form building their own wans?
It's not just about how they have or have not used patents in the past - it's about how they conduct their business in general.
Have they ever used patents against people before? - No. (at least not that I know of.
Are they likely to use them in the future now that DRM and DMCA things are in or going in place? - Absolutely.
The bully doesn't like it when you keep him from stealing lunch money - or when you sell lunches to other people so they don't have any money for him to steal. (I'm going a little broad here with the comparison but you get the idea.)
I'm confused. So you would prefer there be no corporations innovating at all? And, since when is having a patent like placeing a large plasma cannon outside my house? Without patents, no one would innovate. They are protecting their interests...just like you do...and the govt. does...and all other companies do...
I have 0 problem with companies innovating. However the trend has been to innovate without any sort of controls and to step on other people in the process.
The plasma cannon comparison is the threat of using patents against people. Normally a company takes out a patent just to protect itself however in the case of M$ it has been shown that they take the patents out to litigiously squash any competeing business and increase their monopoly on technology. (Some would say that's the purpose of patents but I disagree on the point of quantity of patents per actual business size and actions.) It's not a good comparison but I thought people might be able to see the connection of being forcibly prevented from playing by the bully on the field.
Also, how is this anything like the Enron thing? MS Patents its products vs. Enron... what? Embezzleing money, lying, cheating its employees, scamming the govt., etc...
Simple - lack of ethics. M$, while it may not be the worst, is far too big to be allowed to increase it's playing field without a corresponding increase in the ethics of it's practices. Period. The bigger they get unchecked - the worse their ethics will become. Thus an Enron comparison is valid if not completely in the present time. I apologize if I did not make myself clear.
I will admit that there are far bigger companies with worse ethics - but do we really need another one?
Desite being a linux loving zeleot myself, I have to say I do not know of any instance where microsoft has really used any of its patents in a way which I think is really bad. The closest we can get is the FAT one, but I actually don't think they have even enforced that anywhere.
So even though someone has bought several large plasma cannons and parked them outside your house but not fired them you're supposed to trust that they won't do so in the future? I'd rather they not own plasma cannons in the first place.
Of course I may be proved wrong over time, but I just think they are doing what all other major US companies are doing.
*cough*Enron*cough*
Just because everybody's doing it does not make it right by any stretch of the imagination. Like I said - I'd prefer if the plasma cannons were on my side not theirs. Or better yet - no plasma cannons at all.
Unfortuantely the world doesn't currently work that way at the moment...
The problem is that the groundwork is already in place. How many people out there think that it's illegal to rip a CD even if you own it? Or that speking out against a large corporation is wrong?
Years of "reality" entertainment and a flood of ads and campaigns have made a significant dent in how people view things.
Have you all forgotten that the RIAA got away with RAIDING street vendors while posing as pseudo-police?
I don't know...maybe I just need to report to re-education...
Somebody please moderate the parent comment - it contains a link to the JA guestbook where you can leave comments on this. Failing that - the link is here:
http://www.ja.org/about/about_res_guestbk.shtml#
If you leave comments concerning the issue on their own site it's more than likely to have at least some chilling effect on their policy and might even cause JA support to be removed from the classes making them at the very least a little less effective.
Remember: indoctrination and questionable ethics are how suits are made. Do we want a society of suits?
All Right - how about from a non-Coward... Note: I'm not the original AC - I like to use more expansive words.
1) Problematic as the British school system is it's still a school system and it's goal is teaching children. (The goal should be teaching children how to learn but that's another argument.) Anything that helps these children's mind's grow is a good thing.
2) If the above goal can be done with little or no money - such as teaching a man-made language with paperback books as textbooks then so much the better.
3) Tolkien is INTERESTING to a great many many people - some of them children. With an apathy of interest in quite a few things in society today don't you think using something they ARE interested in to teach them is a good thing?
4) While it can not be denied that England should free Ireland I doubt that the teacher in question had any intention of playing a joke of any sort on the students. It's far more likely that the teacher was just looking for a low-cost method to motivate the students.
5) As sad as the state of affairs in question is - it is far better than quite a few US schools.
It's repellant that you try to turn this into a partisan political matter.
Many people who vote Republican are strongly on the side of Linux, and consider the SCO matter more of the same litigiousness that big-government types seem to relish.
My reference to the Dubyament was a reference to the fact that the president is using his power actively to help big business more than anyone else. A good portion of the government is following his lead.
If you feel this is partisan I think you need to look a little closer at what your government is doing.
The only thing needed for SCO to spread is for good people to do nothing...
Lame I know but it gets the point across.
They are big enough to have the ears of the Dubyament so we have to take at least the possibility of them succeeding seriously if not their actual outpourings of insanity.
Sparc5 - aka Sparcstation 5 - is a really old, really crappy sun4m that is suitable for use as an X terminal and not much else.
Bzzt! Wrong!
These systems make great dedicated use servers. I personally use mine as a webserver - and with only 32meg as well. (Not that it'd handle a slashdotting or anything - I'm too lazy to load balance what is basically my home site.;-)
The point is that this is only the tip of the iceberg. It all goes to the slippery slope argument.
As for using the hardware you bought the way you want just look at the aftermarket automotive industry. Or indeed any industry that you can buy something to add-on to something else.
Look at how many innovations - as Gates-worn as that term is - are just clever additions to existing equipment to solve the problem of the moment.
None of those would exist if people were prevented from using the hardware their way.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually there were a few tape recorders in cars. One was a double-cassette recorder made by a Tiawanese company and put out by JC Whitney and CO. I know - I had one. It even had a microphone input on the front.
The problem with tape recorders in cars - at least when I had mine - was vibration. I couldn't record anything really without a lot of engine/road noise as well as wow and flutter in the tape when played back.
Apparently some of the van operators are moderators on Slashdot as well...
Also, isn't 50 million photos going to take up a crapload of space?
Wasn't this the sort of thing that multi-terabyte database is being created for? Sounds like they want photos to help cross-reference tracking data. They could probably easily overlay the photos onto a 3D tracking framework if they had enough horsepower.
Then again maybe my tinfoil it just itchin...
Personally I would re-do the buildings after the van passes just to be a pain.
I'll bet that some A$$croft type wants people to stand in front of their homes/buildings as the van passes too.
I'm _still_ looking for a country that won't constantly track me like an animal or invade my privacy like a criminal. I haven't found one yet...
If he wanted to go this route he could purchase a laptop with a cracked screen.
What you could then do is remove the screen completely. Configure the system to boot an OS of choice, make a sound when it has booted and loaded a text editor, and then use keyboard commands to shut it down.
If the APM is working right he could suspend it from the keyboard. It would probably run a fair amount longer without having to power the backlight or LCD panel.
Then, when he get's home, he plugs it into an external monitor and network connection or whatnot to edit and download his notes.
Kind of like repeated Slashdot articles:
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;-)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/14/215
Not exactly the same signal but close.
In all seriousness does anybody else see this as an attempt to lock in an approved set of wireless equipment and keep people form building their own wans?
True. I'd forgotten that RAMBUS came first.
Regardless this sort of idiocy will hopefully Darwinate itself into oblivion. One can but hope anway...
RAMBUS! A new Division of SCO!
Following in the fine footsteps of legal idiocy in the technology industry!
/sarcasm
Things like this are not going to end until the industry is either a smoking ruin - or owned by one company only.
Neither one is really palatable to me...
It's not just about how they have or have not used patents in the past - it's about how they conduct their business in general.
Have they ever used patents against people before? - No. (at least not that I know of.
Are they likely to use them in the future now that DRM and DMCA things are in or going in place? - Absolutely.
The bully doesn't like it when you keep him from stealing lunch money - or when you sell lunches to other people so they don't have any money for him to steal. (I'm going a little broad here with the comparison but you get the idea.)
I'm confused. So you would prefer there be no corporations innovating at all? And, since when is having a patent like placeing a large plasma cannon outside my house? Without patents, no one would innovate. They are protecting their interests...just like you do...and the govt. does...and all other companies do...
I have 0 problem with companies innovating. However the trend has been to innovate without any sort of controls and to step on other people in the process.
The plasma cannon comparison is the threat of using patents against people. Normally a company takes out a patent just to protect itself however in the case of M$ it has been shown that they take the patents out to litigiously squash any competeing business and increase their monopoly on technology. (Some would say that's the purpose of patents but I disagree on the point of quantity of patents per actual business size and actions.) It's not a good comparison but I thought people might be able to see the connection of being forcibly prevented from playing by the bully on the field.
Also, how is this anything like the Enron thing? MS Patents its products vs. Enron... what? Embezzleing money, lying, cheating its employees, scamming the govt., etc...
Simple - lack of ethics. M$, while it may not be the worst, is far too big to be allowed to increase it's playing field without a corresponding increase in the ethics of it's practices. Period. The bigger they get unchecked - the worse their ethics will become. Thus an Enron comparison is valid if not completely in the present time. I apologize if I did not make myself clear.
I will admit that there are far bigger companies with worse ethics - but do we really need another one?
Desite being a linux loving zeleot myself, I have to say I do not know of any instance where microsoft has really used any of its patents in a way which I think is really bad. The closest we can get is the FAT one, but I actually don't think they have even enforced that anywhere.
So even though someone has bought several large plasma cannons and parked them outside your house but not fired them you're supposed to trust that they won't do so in the future? I'd rather they not own plasma cannons in the first place.
Of course I may be proved wrong over time, but I just think they are doing what all other major US companies are doing.
*cough*Enron*cough*
Just because everybody's doing it does not make it right by any stretch of the imagination. Like I said - I'd prefer if the plasma cannons were on my side not theirs. Or better yet - no plasma cannons at all.
Unfortuantely the world doesn't currently work that way at the moment...
The problem is that the groundwork is already in place. How many people out there think that it's illegal to rip a CD even if you own it? Or that speking out against a large corporation is wrong?
Years of "reality" entertainment and a flood of ads and campaigns have made a significant dent in how people view things.
Have you all forgotten that the RIAA got away with RAIDING street vendors while posing as pseudo-police?
I don't know...maybe I just need to report to re-education...
Somebody please moderate the parent comment - it contains a link to the JA guestbook where you can leave comments on this. Failing that - the link is here:
http://www.ja.org/about/about_res_guestbk.shtml#
If you leave comments concerning the issue on their own site it's more than likely to have at least some chilling effect on their policy and might even cause JA support to be removed from the classes making them at the very least a little less effective.
Remember: indoctrination and questionable ethics are how suits are made. Do we want a society of suits?
You obviously have never tried to get Postfix running SMTP AUTH.
A royal pain - even with the right packages loaded.
I would think that anything with both the words SCO and throw would be dangerous to either Daryl or the end user.
All Right - how about from a non-Coward...
Note: I'm not the original AC - I like to use more expansive words.
1) Problematic as the British school system is it's still a school system and it's goal is teaching children. (The goal should be teaching children how to learn but that's another argument.) Anything that helps these children's mind's grow is a good thing.
2) If the above goal can be done with little or no money - such as teaching a man-made language with paperback books as textbooks then so much the better.
3) Tolkien is INTERESTING to a great many many people - some of them children. With an apathy of interest in quite a few things in society today don't you think using something they ARE interested in to teach them is a good thing?
4) While it can not be denied that England should free Ireland I doubt that the teacher in question had any intention of playing a joke of any sort on the students. It's far more likely that the teacher was just looking for a low-cost method to motivate the students.
5) As sad as the state of affairs in question is - it is far better than quite a few US schools.
Item I mean - not story.
Didn't a Russian scientist come up with something similar several years ago?
The X10 cam finally finds a home! ;-)
Fun finding out just *what* that unknown IC does.
Just out of curiosity where do you find info on those older or off-brand chips?
I've run into several chips I couldn't identify over the years despite, at the time, having IC Master and such available to me.
IBM with big cigars!
SCO who can't think!
The lawyers who won't leave this alone!
Patch then CVS re-sync!
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Burning some karma but I don't care...
It's repellant that you try to turn this into a partisan political matter.
Many people who vote Republican are strongly on the side of Linux, and consider the SCO matter more of the same litigiousness that big-government types seem to relish.
My reference to the Dubyament was a reference to the fact that the president is using his power actively to help big business more than anyone else. A good portion of the government is following his lead.
If you feel this is partisan I think you need to look a little closer at what your government is doing.
Obligatory Mis-Quote here:
The only thing needed for SCO to spread is for good people to do nothing...
Lame I know but it gets the point across.
They are big enough to have the ears of the Dubyament so we have to take at least the possibility of them succeeding seriously if not their actual outpourings of insanity.
Sparc5 - aka Sparcstation 5 - is a really old, really crappy sun4m that is suitable for use as an X terminal and not much else.
;-)
Bzzt! Wrong!
These systems make great dedicated use servers. I personally use mine as a webserver - and with only 32meg as well. (Not that it'd handle a slashdotting or anything - I'm too lazy to load balance what is basically my home site.
Again you miss the point my Young Jedi... ;-)
The point is that this is only the tip of the iceberg. It all goes to the slippery slope argument.
As for using the hardware you bought the way you want just look at the aftermarket automotive industry. Or indeed any industry that you can buy something to add-on to something else.
Look at how many innovations - as Gates-worn as that term is - are just clever additions to existing equipment to solve the problem of the moment.
None of those would exist if people were prevented from using the hardware their way.
Be my guest. :-)