We know, for a fact, that the former has happened; the question to me is, how far towards the latter end of the spectrum is their behaviour? Release the raw data and let everyone take a look at it, until then I'll always have my doubts as to what is really going on.
We'll never see it because they've deliberately destroyed it.
Based on my reading of the e-mails, which are available on Wikileaks for your own inspection, combined with this more recent information about the destruction of the raw data, I'd have to say they are very far towards that latter end of the spectrum.
Well, yeah, except that there seem to be other constraints and Microsoft has also placed artificial limits on the various versions of Windows.
The highlights: Windows Server (2003 and 2008) Enterprise and Datacenter editions, along with the Itanium editions can address a maximum of 2 TB. Windows Server standard editions have a 32 GB maximum. Windows 7 Enterprise, ultimate and Business have a 192 GB maximum. Vista Enterprise, Ultimate and Business have a 128 GB maximum. For others, you can read about them on on this MSDN article, which has a nice table..
And Windows versions generally have support for 5-8 years, which is a lot more than 18 months.
While certainly true, it shows that with Windows, Microsoft hasn't had as many release cycles as some other operating systems (OS X, Ubuntu). Mostly this is because they haven't had to due to being in control of the market. What this new aggressive release cycle is showing us is that Microsoft has sobered up and realized that with two other major competitors, they now have to fight to maintain that control, a fight that they may still lose.
To support all those 128-bit processors and 128-bit applications currently on the market? To support more than the 192 GB of main memory supported by Windows 7 64-bit? I thought 192 GB ought to be enough for anybody!
I don't know which Linux distros your're referring to, but if you mean Ubuntu, yes, it has a release schedule of approximately every six months, but each release is supported for 18 months. These are more for casual use. The LTS versions are the 'major new versions' and are intended for large deployments: they're supported for a minimum of 3 years. FWIW, following the Ubuntu release cycle as it's intended, the last 'major new version' was 8.04 'Hardy Heron' released on April of 2008. The next LTS version will not be released until April of next year, and it's code name is 'Lucid Lynx' (which I think is very, very likely to get nicknamed 'XLynx' for obvious reasons.;)
The Nvidia forums are rife with people who are saying that the 180 drivers aren't stable and that, in particular, they have problems with Fallout 3. This thread has more info.
You wouldn't happen to be running that with Portable Address Extensions (PAE) turned on, would you? Because recent versions of the Nvidia Windows drivers don't work with PAE and will blue screen at boot with that particular dll mentioned if it's installed on a box with PAE turned on. HTH. YMMV.
Monitor? Us old people don't have monitors. We bang away at our teletypes! What in the hell do you think TTY stands for? You kids and your newfangled 'monitors'. Now get off of my lawn!
Why do you say that? It all depends on what the patent is about. In this case, it's a design patent. I don't think anyone here is in danger of copying Google's particular visual layout.
Besides, I'm not sure I've ever seen Slashdot list all of the claims of a particular patent anyway. In addition, it's important to remember that while you can get be liable for breaking patents by reading about a patent beforehand, the burden of proof is still on your accuser. And no, a Web log is not adequate proof that you actually read a patent.
(I'm not a laywer and this is not legal advice; if you want legal advice, you should hire a qualified, competent attorney.)
I don't know why this is or if it's true or if Opera plans to fix it but I would find their implementation of a solution pretty archaic if that's one of the caveats. Hopefully they are working on fixing that.
Probably true. Opera Mini works by connecting to proxy servers that filter Web content so that it displays properly on a cell phone's tiny screen. All Opera Software would have to do is run a separate set of proxies for "Opera Mini China" and then actively refuse connections on their main proxies originating from Chinese IP address blocks. (Or, more likely, the Great Firewall will block them.)
Who cares about local shops? I've bought every single computer I've purchased in the last 10 years online, whether that entails buying parts or complete systems from vendors like Dell. My employers have also bought all their computers online (mostly from Dell or HP). The cost savings is real, even including shipping. All major laptop vendors (Dell, HP, Apple, Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba, etc.) sell online at prices that put anything you can buy in the store to shame. Why pay full retail?
The summary's misleading. It isn't the displaying of patents that Google patented, it is the particular Web GUI that they patented. Which is, mind you, fairly unique in that it displays the original images quickly and uses particularly unique layout for the display of the very intuitive controls.
Not that I agree with software patents, I think they're stupid, but under current patent laws, what they patented seems to meet the standard for what is patentable.
Recent is obviously a relative term. We often talk about 11-dimensional string theory being a recent development in cosmology and quantum physics, but 11-dimensional string theory stretches back to 1995 and is, hence, nearly 15 years old.
Not to open another "sci-fi" vs. science fiction debate, but the place that sci-fi (in the sense of science fiction) has always drawn its inspiration is from, well, science. When Asimov wrote Nightfall, he speculated about what would happen on a planet, inhabited by a society not too different from our own, that was surrounded by stars such that the entire planet was constantly illuminated. What would happen, then, if it were later discovered that every 2000 years or so, one of those suns were visible eclipsed? The society had never experienced dark. His inspiration was drawn from not just the physical sciences, but also the social sciences.
When he wrote I, Robot, he hypothesized about a computer brain that operated on positrons, which were recently discovered then.
So look for the sci-fi breakthroughs to occur where the scientific breakthroughs are occurring.
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Sadly, they don't have the raw data. They threw it away. Worse, they probably have threw it away much more recently than they originally stated.
We'll never see it because they've deliberately destroyed it.
Based on my reading of the e-mails, which are available on Wikileaks for your own inspection, combined with this more recent information about the destruction of the raw data, I'd have to say they are very far towards that latter end of the spectrum.
Well, yeah, except that there seem to be other constraints and Microsoft has also placed artificial limits on the various versions of Windows.
The highlights: Windows Server (2003 and 2008) Enterprise and Datacenter editions, along with the Itanium editions can address a maximum of 2 TB. Windows Server standard editions have a 32 GB maximum. Windows 7 Enterprise, ultimate and Business have a 192 GB maximum. Vista Enterprise, Ultimate and Business have a 128 GB maximum. For others, you can read about them on on this MSDN article, which has a nice table..
(Whoosh, btw)
And Windows versions generally have support for 5-8 years, which is a lot more than 18 months.
While certainly true, it shows that with Windows, Microsoft hasn't had as many release cycles as some other operating systems (OS X, Ubuntu). Mostly this is because they haven't had to due to being in control of the market. What this new aggressive release cycle is showing us is that Microsoft has sobered up and realized that with two other major competitors, they now have to fight to maintain that control, a fight that they may still lose.
To support all those 128-bit processors and 128-bit applications currently on the market? To support more than the 192 GB of main memory supported by Windows 7 64-bit? I thought 192 GB ought to be enough for anybody!
I don't know which Linux distros your're referring to, but if you mean Ubuntu, yes, it has a release schedule of approximately every six months, but each release is supported for 18 months. These are more for casual use. The LTS versions are the 'major new versions' and are intended for large deployments: they're supported for a minimum of 3 years. FWIW, following the Ubuntu release cycle as it's intended, the last 'major new version' was 8.04 'Hardy Heron' released on April of 2008. The next LTS version will not be released until April of next year, and it's code name is 'Lucid Lynx' (which I think is very, very likely to get nicknamed 'XLynx' for obvious reasons. ;)
The Nvidia forums are rife with people who are saying that the 180 drivers aren't stable and that, in particular, they have problems with Fallout 3. This thread has more info.
Bah. Tell Linus to put in on eBay. It's easy to find out how much he would get rather than posturing about it.
Yeah? Well your name anagrams to Fed Relay! Oh, wait...*runs*
It's worth noting that in Vegas (and Atlantic City) you can still place sports bets with bookies.
BTW-- don't know about neighborhood bar bookies turning back 95% of his gross as winnings. It's probably more like 75%.
Hey! You stole my monitor! Give it back!
You wouldn't happen to be running that with Portable Address Extensions (PAE) turned on, would you? Because recent versions of the Nvidia Windows drivers don't work with PAE and will blue screen at boot with that particular dll mentioned if it's installed on a box with PAE turned on. HTH. YMMV.
Monitor? Us old people don't have monitors. We bang away at our teletypes! What in the hell do you think TTY stands for? You kids and your newfangled 'monitors'. Now get off of my lawn!
the most you could do was rack up (a debt of) credits for the door games
You just weren't calling the right boards. ;)
It's "wrong" to let people do it from the comfort of their own homes at the click of a button.
So we should outlaw sports bookies, too? All you have to do is pick up the phone, right?
[citation needed]
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MMMmmm...*munch* *munch* *much* I claim mmmm.....*munch* *munch* prioahr aaurt ... mmmmmm ..mmmmm.... *munch* *munch*
Why do you say that? It all depends on what the patent is about. In this case, it's a design patent. I don't think anyone here is in danger of copying Google's particular visual layout.
Besides, I'm not sure I've ever seen Slashdot list all of the claims of a particular patent anyway. In addition, it's important to remember that while you can get be liable for breaking patents by reading about a patent beforehand, the burden of proof is still on your accuser. And no, a Web log is not adequate proof that you actually read a patent.
(I'm not a laywer and this is not legal advice; if you want legal advice, you should hire a qualified, competent attorney.)
Loser porn is like when the male role is played by a Slashdot reader living in his mother's basement. :-P
No, seriously, I think the parent is referring to Grey's like of consensual degradation.
Anyway, I wouldn't call Sasha Grey a "second tier porn skank." At one point she was pegged to be the next Jenna Jameson.
I don't know why this is or if it's true or if Opera plans to fix it but I would find their implementation of a solution pretty archaic if that's one of the caveats. Hopefully they are working on fixing that.
Probably true. Opera Mini works by connecting to proxy servers that filter Web content so that it displays properly on a cell phone's tiny screen. All Opera Software would have to do is run a separate set of proxies for "Opera Mini China" and then actively refuse connections on their main proxies originating from Chinese IP address blocks. (Or, more likely, the Great Firewall will block them.)
Who cares about local shops? I've bought every single computer I've purchased in the last 10 years online, whether that entails buying parts or complete systems from vendors like Dell. My employers have also bought all their computers online (mostly from Dell or HP). The cost savings is real, even including shipping. All major laptop vendors (Dell, HP, Apple, Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba, etc.) sell online at prices that put anything you can buy in the store to shame. Why pay full retail?
The summary's misleading. It isn't the displaying of patents that Google patented, it is the particular Web GUI that they patented. Which is, mind you, fairly unique in that it displays the original images quickly and uses particularly unique layout for the display of the very intuitive controls.
Not that I agree with software patents, I think they're stupid, but under current patent laws, what they patented seems to meet the standard for what is patentable.
(IANAL, TINLA, bleh.)
Recent is obviously a relative term. We often talk about 11-dimensional string theory being a recent development in cosmology and quantum physics, but 11-dimensional string theory stretches back to 1995 and is, hence, nearly 15 years old.
Not to open another "sci-fi" vs. science fiction debate, but the place that sci-fi (in the sense of science fiction) has always drawn its inspiration is from, well, science. When Asimov wrote Nightfall, he speculated about what would happen on a planet, inhabited by a society not too different from our own, that was surrounded by stars such that the entire planet was constantly illuminated. What would happen, then, if it were later discovered that every 2000 years or so, one of those suns were visible eclipsed? The society had never experienced dark. His inspiration was drawn from not just the physical sciences, but also the social sciences.
When he wrote I, Robot, he hypothesized about a computer brain that operated on positrons, which were recently discovered then.
So look for the sci-fi breakthroughs to occur where the scientific breakthroughs are occurring.