2001 report of bankruptcyfiling Followed by closing doors. At one time there were Metricom trucks all over Atlanta putting their stuff on utility poles.
Maybe I'm not too old to get a law degree. On the surface, it looks like a case of 'the more patents our lawyers can throw at your lawyers, the more money you will have to spend and we have MUCH more of that commodity than you do.'
The way the patent reads it's a sleaze into we own A XOR B !=0 when A and B are addresses. I know it doesn't say that, but imagine how long a bunch of slick lawyers could flumox a typical jury with a peck of similar patents.
In the ideal world one would decide what is needed to do the job, send out a mess of RFQ's with appropriate penalties for 'failure to perform' in all categories of import (including timely delivery), and let the vendors figure out how to meet your needs.
Of course, it's more work to detail requirements than to WAG hardware that has enough oomph to CYA. It's less fun researching than hitting a 3 martini lunch and maybe a weekend of golf and strip clubs with the vendors.
In the end, you can have the best of both worlds (no work and a good system) via strategic relationships. Once you've established with a strong sales guy at the vendors, it's as much in his interest as it is in yours to keep your bosses happy. It takes a good bit of money flow to keep this relationship going, but in the end may still prove to be the least expensive approach, depending on your 'people skills'. This is often what is really going on when upper management who doesn't have a clue abotu the details ends up directing the deal toward a specific vendor, time and time again.
"We make tires; we specialize in foots of sort. If we see offers, we will consider them," he said.
I guess a fin qualifies under "foots of sort". You have to hand it to capitalism. What other manufacturing culture would even consider "foots of sort" for a lady porpoise.
Based on the following,
"Visitors have told us she looks happy," he said. Inside Bridgestone a line of female prosthetics is undder consideration. An anonymous source reports, "There has been a sudden shift in our research departments interest in hootage. What was once considered locker decoration may soon beccome a significant contributor to our bottom line. Yes, pun on purpose, we are looking into booty enhancments as well."
"CRTs are not going away anytime soon," said Riddhi Patel, an analyst with researcher iSuppli. "They will account for 70 percent of the market in 2008."
I wonder if these employ thermionic emmission, electrons hopping off sharp points, or ???
Any/.ers in the know? There was no tech info on at either referenced site.
I am curious because there may be life left in the CRT rebuilding industry.
I worked in CRT rebuilding plant one winter while in High School. Excepting myself, a high school friend, and an old half blind splotchy looking guy (he ran the hydroflouric acid etching machine) we were the only people who didn't run for the warehouse and hide in boxes whenever the INS appeared.
Dangerous work. Closest I've ever come to immolation. Thank you to whoever invented the dry chemical fire extinguisher!
Do you think Cameron or Wired might be interested in sponsoring a visit and video interview with a family of head hunters who, now that head hunting is unlawful, have taken to fighting chickens instead. I'm serious. It will only take a few days of trekking through the jungle, once the road ends, to reach their village. We could knock the whole thing out in about three weeks. It might be incorporated into a wider study global interest in chicken fighting.
Yes, I know this is a shameless plug for project funding, but one has to arget every portential source (/.ers maybe?).
You're likely pretty safe renting and ripping, if you do so for your own use. It's close enough to timeshifting a TeeVee show to be a legal can of worms. You rent the DVD, you don't have time to watch it more than once. You rented it for 72 hours. So, you make yourself a time shift copy. For a two hour movie you've got 35 views left.
Context, press, the business...
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Sun-isms Debunked
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"And who will support that? Red Hat won't support Debian,"
The context of Sun's words, essentially a press party, dictated that they speak in simple, repetitive statements designed to convey a message that the press would NOT screw up. I've done a half dozen or so press interviews, and believe me, 'the press' can distort a clear, direct, statement. So, consider the context. Also, consider tha Scott and party did not know the interviewer.
As for business. Who can know Sun's real intentions. In business the only intentions that are worth a damn are those that: are in the contract and not open to interpretation; lie in the cards you hold close.
Maybe Sun is headed toward a more (than is is so far) open OS. It's not something that can be turned on overnight and it's certainly something to be done slowly and carefully, as long as you've enough $ in the bank to be a lawyer target.
"Especially when each one takes several hours to download?" I don't know about that. I see 600kB/s at home which is typical for comcast cable around here and 8MB/s on my colo box (at night when the bandwidth is available).
But, you're right, for the $7-$15 price of a DVD, I'd rather have the quality of the DVD and most friends with high speed agree.
Dual use is great for the environment.
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RF Connector Chess Set
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If you live in small quarters, NYC, Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong. AND you like to mess around with RF stuff AND you like to play chess
it's a great way to reduce the problem of TOO MUCH STUFF
An added bonus is the ubiquity of the pieces. Should one of the kids swallow an SMA connector, you can pull a spare out of your parts bin or pick on up in Akihabara for peanuts relative to what an equally cool 'real' chess piece might cost, if you could find a match.
A/. participant research project into other dual use scenarios might prove interesting and entertaining.
I'm inclined to agree with geoffspear on the caching angle.
Fair use seems pretty permissive in practice. Law being statute plus interpretation plus enforcement when applied to copyright allows much more than a conservative interpretation of the statue would suggest. Especially considering that there has never been a 'photocopier at the library' war. There are practical matters too. We don't see people trading books over the P2P nets. It's a PITA to read a book on line and the cost of printing a copy while maybe les than buying one, will not get a very managable paper copy.
The/. 'news' topic is the soon to be availability of a slew of old newspapers. IMO, reading will give a better sense of the times in which they were written allowing many people to understand the difference between the intellectualized, interpreted, history thay were taught in school and the contextual reality of the events themselves.I'm looking forward to reading.
The glossary is a useful link if you want to understand some of the language used by the fusion priesthood.
The AP link is useful for those who enjoy a little humor with their science.
Before spending too much money, the EU may want to consider the "Fusion Barrier Law" referenced on this site. You'll have to dig a bit as AP is a prolific writer, but it's there. Basically AP has 'proved' that energy out of a fusion reactor is limited to 2/3 of energy in to the reactor.
Things like this have been flying for decades. I'd like to know what sort of sensors and resolutions will be flying and what they plan to charge for raw data.
Epistrax sez, "I thought the entire excuse for hunting was for tradition and the sportsmanship. This completely removes both. This is purely idiotic."
The dood with the web site sez,
"First it was rocks and clubs, then we sharpened it and put it on a stick. Then there was the bow and arrow, black powder, smokeless power and optics," Berger said. "Maybe this is the next technological step out there."
There is no excuse necessary for hunting. It's fun and wild animals are tasty. IMO, the morality of paying someone else to kill your meat (buying it at the grocery store), is well below that of killing ones own meat. When you kill your own meat, you're in touch with the spirit of the animal. You see his eyes, you watch him die, and THEN YOU COOK AND EAT HIM!. When you drive through the 'Burger Potentate'(TM) you don't even acknowledge the animals existance.
So, for all those who do eat meat but argue against hunting, I say that YOU are dishonoring the animals you eat by failing to notice that they ever existed as animals.
Now, where' my club, I've got a hankering for some groundhog BBQ. For those ignorant of hunting, it is quite the challange to dispatch a groundhog with a club. Opossum, well he's pretty primitive and slow. A one legged man can easily run down Mr Possum and snatch him by the tail.
FOr me, hunting is not about 'sport'. Sport is snagging Mr. Riches trophy wife for a nooner. Hunting is about the meat and being in touch with nature and ones own being.
Used a fictitious name for mine. Do not use checks of charge/credit card at the store, cash only. They don't have a clue who they're dealing with. We've some two dozen people around the SE USA using the same fictitious name, so even if we were to use credit cards, the store would have a difficult time figuring out what's going on. You can begin to mess with their database by doing things such as borrowing a friends card and using your credit card. DisInformation is wonderful.
Buddy has a system running and it's extremely zippy compared to most of the 'packages' floating around. Key is good (mission appropriate) database design. XUL speeds up the user interface considerably. Alas, not open source, but it may be licensed. Or, you could roll your own.
"Why must I be forced to send my children to schools where the teachers insist that we are descended from apes?"
Jesus Dood, it's too bad you don't live in the USA. Here you can home school the interplanetary origin of man and with the cooporation of lke minded individuals start your own school to teach this 'fact'.
This bugs me too. Sure, you can get some decent enhancement if you have a lot of low resolution samples, but from one frame? No Way!
The reference magazine article said that CSI is a problem because criminals have become more concious of evidence. You'd think that the magical cameras might work as a deterrent, but this isn't mentioned in the article. Seeing some of the/. posts on infinite resolution, it's easy to imagine a greater (so it would be a significant) percentage of the criminals believing the voodoo image processing.
Have only seen a few episodes but as a geek, I can say the geek chicks with their hint of kink would trivialize the science even if it weren't crap!
The science can't be all bad though. The referenced time article says that criminals are improving their craft with knowledge gained via CSI time. As for jourors, as a scientist myself, am I not at a disadvantage if tried by a jury of my peers? I feel kind of cheated by society as it appears that fat dumb and lazy pays after all?
It also appears that for a significant portion of the USA population, life is high school and TeeVee.
Article is interesting because
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Killer Ozone?
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"Peaks in air ozone levels were linked with peaks in premature death rates in urban areas across the US"
It's well known that long term exposure to ground level ozone attacks your lungs and plastic and rubber products (tires, molding on your car, rubberized and vinyl fabrics, etc.)
This AMA report sez that short term correlation suggests further study. Well of course, you want to know what you're up against.
It's not the H2 that's the problem. One old V-8 that's exempt from emmission testing and driving around on 6 cylinders causes more of a problem than a hundred hummers. The poor need their cars so these things stay on the road.
Slashdot Mirror
What's emacs?
Winks as good as a nod to a blind man
2001 report of bankruptcyfiling Followed by closing doors.
At one time there were Metricom trucks all over Atlanta putting their stuff on utility poles.
Maybe I'm not too old to get a law degree. On the surface, it looks like a case of 'the more patents our lawyers can throw at your lawyers, the more money you will have to spend and we have MUCH more of that commodity than you do.'
The way the patent reads it's a sleaze into we own A XOR B !=0 when A and B are addresses. I know it doesn't say that, but imagine how long a bunch of slick lawyers could flumox a typical jury with a peck of similar patents.
In the ideal world one would decide what is needed to do the job, send out a mess of RFQ's with appropriate penalties for 'failure to perform' in all categories of import (including timely delivery), and let the vendors figure out how to meet your needs.
Of course, it's more work to detail requirements than to WAG hardware that has enough oomph to CYA. It's less fun researching than hitting a 3 martini lunch and maybe a weekend of golf and strip clubs with the vendors.
In the end, you can have the best of both worlds (no work and a good system) via strategic relationships. Once you've established with a strong sales guy at the vendors, it's as much in his interest as it is in yours to keep your bosses happy. It takes a good bit of money flow to keep this relationship going, but in the end may still prove to be the least expensive approach, depending on your 'people skills'. This is often what is really going on when upper management who doesn't have a clue abotu the details ends up directing the deal toward a specific vendor, time and time again.
They don't teach this at Harvard or MIT
"We make tires; we specialize in foots of sort. If we see offers, we will consider them," he said.
I guess a fin qualifies under "foots of sort". You have to hand it to capitalism. What other manufacturing culture would even consider "foots of sort" for a lady porpoise.
Based on the following, "Visitors have told us she looks happy," he said. Inside Bridgestone a line of female prosthetics is undder consideration. An anonymous source reports, "There has been a sudden shift in our research departments interest in hootage. What was once considered locker decoration may soon beccome a significant contributor to our bottom line. Yes, pun on purpose, we are looking into booty enhancments as well."
Electrons hoping off sharp points = Field Emmission Displays.
Paper from 99 on carbon nanotube FED
Additional FED links:
http://www.physorg.com/news86.html
An important factor in commercialization is the price of raw materials. A number of Japanese companies including Mitsui, Toray Industries and Mitsubishi Chemical have well advanced plans to mass-produce CNTs and bring prices down to ¥10 000 (85)/kg.
And a mess more interesting stuff on the carbon nanotube field emmission display via google search.
"CRTs are not going away anytime soon," said Riddhi Patel, an analyst with researcher iSuppli. "They will account for 70 percent of the market in 2008."
I wonder if these employ thermionic emmission, electrons hopping off sharp points, or ???
Any
I am curious because there may be life left in the CRT rebuilding industry.
I worked in CRT rebuilding plant one winter while in High School. Excepting myself, a high school friend, and an old half blind splotchy looking guy (he ran the hydroflouric acid etching machine) we were the only people who didn't run for the warehouse and hide in boxes whenever the INS appeared.
Dangerous work. Closest I've ever come to immolation. Thank you to whoever invented the dry chemical fire extinguisher!
Do you think Cameron or Wired might be interested in sponsoring a visit and video interview with a family of head hunters who, now that head hunting is unlawful, have taken to fighting chickens instead. I'm serious. It will only take a few days of trekking through the jungle, once the road ends, to reach their village. We could knock the whole thing out in about three weeks. It might be incorporated into a wider study global interest in chicken fighting.
Yes, I know this is a shameless plug for project funding, but one has to arget every portential source (/.ers maybe?).
You're likely pretty safe renting and ripping, if you do so for your own use. It's close enough to timeshifting a TeeVee show to be a legal can of worms. You rent the DVD, you don't have time to watch it more than once. You rented it for 72 hours. So, you make yourself a time shift copy. For a two hour movie you've got 35 views left.
"And who will support that? Red Hat won't support Debian,"
The context of Sun's words, essentially a press party, dictated that they speak in simple, repetitive statements designed to convey a message that the press would NOT screw up. I've done a half dozen or so press interviews, and believe me, 'the press' can distort a clear, direct, statement. So, consider the context. Also, consider tha Scott and party did not know the interviewer.
As for business. Who can know Sun's real intentions. In business the only intentions that are worth a damn are those that: are in the contract and not open to interpretation; lie in the cards you hold close.
Maybe Sun is headed toward a more (than is is so far) open OS. It's not something that can be turned on overnight and it's certainly something to be done slowly and carefully, as long as you've enough $ in the bank to be a lawyer target.
I don't understand why developers might eschew Solaris. It's 'another channel'.
"Especially when each one takes several hours to download?"
I don't know about that. I see 600kB/s at home which is typical for comcast cable around here and 8MB/s on my colo box (at night when the bandwidth is available)
But, you're right, for the $7-$15 price of a DVD, I'd rather have the quality of the DVD and most friends with high speed agree.
If you live in small quarters, NYC, Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong.
/. participant research project into other dual use scenarios might prove interesting and entertaining.
AND
you like to mess around with RF stuff
AND you like to play chess
it's a great way to reduce the problem of TOO MUCH STUFF
An added bonus is the ubiquity of the pieces. Should one of the kids swallow an SMA connector, you can pull a spare out of your parts bin or pick on up in Akihabara for peanuts relative to what an equally cool 'real' chess piece might cost, if you could find a match.
A
I'm inclined to agree with geoffspear on the caching angle.
Fair use seems pretty permissive in practice. Law being statute plus interpretation plus enforcement when applied to copyright allows much more than a conservative interpretation of the statue would suggest. Especially considering that there has never been a 'photocopier at the library' war.
There are practical matters too. We don't see people trading books over the P2P nets. It's a PITA to read a book on line and the cost of printing a copy while maybe les than buying one, will not get a very managable paper copy.
The
The glossary is a useful link if you want to understand some of the language used by the fusion priesthood. The AP link is useful for those who enjoy a little humor with their science.
Plasma Physics and Fusion Glossary
Before spending too much money, the EU may want to consider the "Fusion Barrier Law" referenced on this site.
You'll have to dig a bit as AP is a prolific writer, but it's there.
Basically AP has 'proved' that energy out of a fusion reactor is limited to 2/3 of energy in to the reactor.
AP story from Yahoo news has some additional info.
Things like this have been flying for decades.
I'd like to know what sort of sensors and resolutions will be flying and what they plan to charge for raw data.
Epistrax sez, "I thought the entire excuse for hunting was for tradition and the sportsmanship. This completely removes both. This is purely idiotic."
The dood with the web site sez, "First it was rocks and clubs, then we sharpened it and put it on a stick. Then there was the bow and arrow, black powder, smokeless power and optics," Berger said. "Maybe this is the next technological step out there."
There is no excuse necessary for hunting. It's fun and wild animals are tasty. IMO, the morality of paying someone else to kill your meat (buying it at the grocery store), is well below that of killing ones own meat. When you kill your own meat, you're in touch with the spirit of the animal. You see his eyes, you watch him die, and THEN YOU COOK AND EAT HIM!. When you drive through the 'Burger Potentate'(TM) you don't even acknowledge the animals existance.
So, for all those who do eat meat but argue against hunting, I say that YOU are dishonoring the animals you eat by failing to notice that they ever existed as animals.
Now, where' my club, I've got a hankering for some groundhog BBQ. For those ignorant of hunting, it is quite the challange to dispatch a groundhog with a club. Opossum, well he's pretty primitive and slow. A one legged man can easily run down Mr Possum and snatch him by the tail.
FOr me, hunting is not about 'sport'. Sport is snagging Mr. Riches trophy wife for a nooner. Hunting is about the meat and being in touch with nature and ones own being.
Used a fictitious name for mine. Do not use checks of charge/credit card at the store, cash only. They don't have a clue who they're dealing with. We've some two dozen people around the SE USA using the same fictitious name, so even if we were to use credit cards, the store would have a difficult time figuring out what's going on. You can begin to mess with their database by doing things such as borrowing a friends card and using your credit card. DisInformation is wonderful.
Buddy has a system running and it's extremely zippy compared to most of the 'packages' floating around. Key is good (mission appropriate) database design. XUL speeds up the user interface considerably. Alas, not open source, but it may be licensed. Or, you could roll your own.
"Why must I be forced to send my children to schools where the teachers insist that we are descended from apes?"
Jesus Dood, it's too bad you don't live in the USA. Here you can home school the interplanetary origin of man and with the cooporation of lke minded individuals start your own school to teach this 'fact'.
photographic memories will be required to have a flash attachment installed with their RFID implant?
This bugs me too. Sure, you can get some decent enhancement if you have a lot of low resolution samples, but from one frame? No Way!
The reference magazine article said that CSI is a problem because criminals have become more concious of evidence. You'd think that the magical cameras might work as a deterrent, but this isn't mentioned in the article. Seeing some of the
Have only seen a few episodes but as a geek, I can say the geek chicks with their hint of kink would trivialize the science even if it weren't crap!
The science can't be all bad though. The referenced time article says that criminals are improving their craft with knowledge gained via CSI time.
As for jourors, as a scientist myself, am I not at a disadvantage if tried by a jury of my peers? I feel kind of cheated by society as it appears that fat dumb and lazy pays after all?
It also appears that for a significant portion of the USA population, life is high school and TeeVee.
"Peaks in air ozone levels were linked with peaks in premature death rates in urban areas across the US"
It's well known that long term exposure to ground level ozone attacks your lungs and plastic and rubber products (tires, molding on your car, rubberized and vinyl fabrics, etc.)
This AMA report sez that short term correlation suggests further study. Well of course, you want to know what you're up against.
It's not the H2 that's the problem. One old V-8 that's exempt from emmission testing and driving around on 6 cylinders causes more of a problem than a hundred hummers.
The poor need their cars so these things stay on the road.