heh.. i remember having a "laptop"/"portable computer" which was an old 8088.. 640k ram. and a 2mb hdd.. replaced the battery pack with a bunch of D Cells.. and used to play games on it on road trips.. still have it some place...
Windows XP supported moving your My Documents folder (via a tab on it's properties if you right click on it from the start menu).. and it would move the folder and it's contents and update the system link.
and having theses options available at setup - while nice does not at all deal with the issue of applications that don't pay attention and just feel everything should be where the default would be.
sure it takes a little work - and you can't do it right at install - but it isn't that much work, and you have the added benefit that you don't have to care if devs are stupid and hard code paths in their software.
I'd rather engineers focus on reducing manufacturing costs than making them smaller.
While i understand your meaning of that argument - a lot of people don't realize that the smaller the size the higher the density.
when building chips - the area of the chip is a good reflector of it's cost to manufacture.. by making chips higher density and smaller they are allowing for more storage space for a given physical space and lowering the $per GB.
but i agree they still have a long way to go to compare cost wise to spinning disks.. but then again spinning disks also have a good 30+ years on them (not the chip based storage but rather using it as a block/mass storage device).
a retired General - Ex-Governor - War hero.. suspect because of his metal of honor..
really?? if there was any person who wouldn't try to blow up a plane - i think it would be this guy.. and if this guy DID feel the need to try to i think we all might want to listen to why he would.
as far as i'm concerned i'll Drive where i need to go unless it isn't really possible.
seemed interesting - so i looked at it.. first thing that through me off is - to get an invite you have to do it on facebook - which i refuse to bother with so i can't even do that.. (really a web browser that requires you to sign up for a different companies web based service before you can try it?)
Second - i figured i'd watch the video and just see what they are doing - looks like chrome with side bars and a lot of extensions - then i saw him say something about landlord and it had an icon showing Tron-Guy on it.. at that point i just ignored my browser window and moved on to more e-mail.
where i lived there where 2 providers - 1 of them was clever - they advertised never getting a busy signal.. what the did was put call waiting on the main rollover line.
you never got a busy signal - but some times it just sat there and rang forever.
exactly.. consumer lines are very oversold - because people want quick but most people don't need quick and constant.
biz expect to get a speed and get it all the time - this is why leased lines are so damn expensive..
what this streaming at prime time on consumer lines will cause is a degradation of service where only a few can use it at a time or no one can use it as it will be too slow over all.
it will cause the providers to increase their backbone max capacity.. it has nothing to do with the bandwidth for the run to someones house..
at the same time though - if they run out it can only be attributed to poor planning and network management. it's one thing to max out randomly - but when it happens every day at a given time you need to plan that it is going to happen tomorrow too.
proof of concept? no.. the proof was done several years ago with 1 person and if i remember right the resolution was either 9x9 or 10x10.. this is 1500 dots so at least 15x the resolution.
this is the next step - and i'm sure there will be plenty more.. you just have to take them one at a time.
to many people want to leap into the future and have what we can image now - but you can only do it with baby steps along the way.
or the use of the holodeck/hologram like they used once in voyager.
i still love in Stargate Atlantis - once given transporters - they did the obvious.. beam a nuke over to the enemy ship.. star-trek would never have done that.
it will put this company in an interesting spot for copyright violations - as they are inherently making derivative works on the fly and distributing them, all without permission.
None of which is actionable infringement as I understand United States law. See 17 USC 512(a) and (b), titled "Limitations on liability relating to material online: transitory digital network communications and system caching". This was added to copyright law as part of the DMCA in 1998.
if you read it i'm pretty sure they are going to violate #4
"(4) no copy of the material made by the service provider in the course of such intermediate or transient storage is maintained on the system or network in a manner ordinarily accessible to anyone other than anticipated recipients, and no such copy is maintained on the system or network in a manner ordinarily accessible to such anticipated recipients for a longer period than is reasonably necessary for the transmission, routing, or provision of connections; and"
unless they plan on launching a new process for every connection to the same video and trans coding it every single time (aka zero caching)
but just the fact they are trans-coding means they are violating #5
"(5) the material is transmitted through the system or network without modification of its content."
yea.. this definitely doesn't meet that requirement.. so they don't fall under this.
Slashdot Mirror
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6368227.PN.&OS=PN/6368227&RS=PN/6368227
that is my personal favorite.
"Method of swinging on a swing"
that'd be because the originals where most likely NiCd
you know the patent # ? i'd like to read that one
heh.. i remember having a "laptop"/"portable computer" which was an old 8088.. 640k ram. and a 2mb hdd.. replaced the battery pack with a bunch of D Cells.. and used to play games on it on road trips.. still have it some place...
Windows XP supported moving your My Documents folder (via a tab on it's properties if you right click on it from the start menu).. and it would move the folder and it's contents and update the system link.
and having theses options available at setup - while nice does not at all deal with the issue of applications that don't pay attention and just feel everything should be where the default would be.
thats completely different.. for IC's the higher the density the cheaper (to a point) to make
for spinning platters during the BigFoot times.. the lower the density the easier and cheaper to manufacture.
which is why you just use Junction points to other disks.
Sorry i've been doing this on desktops since NT5 Beta..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point
sure it takes a little work - and you can't do it right at install - but it isn't that much work, and you have the added benefit that you don't have to care if devs are stupid and hard code paths in their software.
I'd rather engineers focus on reducing manufacturing costs than making them smaller.
While i understand your meaning of that argument - a lot of people don't realize that the smaller the size the higher the density.
when building chips - the area of the chip is a good reflector of it's cost to manufacture.. by making chips higher density and smaller they are allowing for more storage space for a given physical space and lowering the $per GB.
but i agree they still have a long way to go to compare cost wise to spinning disks.. but then again spinning disks also have a good 30+ years on them (not the chip based storage but rather using it as a block/mass storage device).
ahh yes weed - i'm sure mythbusters can figure out how to take blow a plane up with that.. question is .. could the old lady?
normally i don't link to snopes but there is a good write up. better than all the random news that posted it
http://www.snopes.com/military/medal.asp
a retired General - Ex-Governor - War hero.. suspect because of his metal of honor..
really?? if there was any person who wouldn't try to blow up a plane - i think it would be this guy.. and if this guy DID feel the need to try to i think we all might want to listen to why he would.
as far as i'm concerned i'll Drive where i need to go unless it isn't really possible.
how kind of them to inform you that both of them have tolls too.
seemed interesting - so i looked at it.. first thing that through me off is - to get an invite you have to do it on facebook - which i refuse to bother with so i can't even do that .. (really a web browser that requires you to sign up for a different companies web based service before you can try it?)
Second - i figured i'd watch the video and just see what they are doing - looks like chrome with side bars and a lot of extensions - then i saw him say something about landlord and it had an icon showing Tron-Guy on it.. at that point i just ignored my browser window and moved on to more e-mail.
you know i read it yesterday - and completely missed it.. i had forgot about that.
I've heard a lot of good things about FiOS but it isn't available down here - so instead i use PRI's
actually for the building i'm local bell loop and licensed radio is the only options we have for services with SLA's
TNG had a few times people used subspace transporters - they where bad for the user but worked.. if it's a one off thing.. send a nuke..
yea but with a sig like that - no one would believe it.
i'm kinda lost - i don't remember her ever beaming a weapon directly to an enemy ship.
considering the number of remote terms i have open at the moment - that would be would be a very short sighted comment
where i lived there where 2 providers - 1 of them was clever - they advertised never getting a busy signal.. what the did was put call waiting on the main rollover line.
you never got a busy signal - but some times it just sat there and rang forever.
exactly.. consumer lines are very oversold - because people want quick but most people don't need quick and constant.
biz expect to get a speed and get it all the time - this is why leased lines are so damn expensive..
what this streaming at prime time on consumer lines will cause is a degradation of service where only a few can use it at a time or no one can use it as it will be too slow over all.
it will cause the providers to increase their backbone max capacity.. it has nothing to do with the bandwidth for the run to someones house..
at the same time though - if they run out it can only be attributed to poor planning and network management. it's one thing to max out randomly - but when it happens every day at a given time you need to plan that it is going to happen tomorrow too.
that was supposed to be only for the testing group
problem is it never ended
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/why-ipv6-vint-cerf-keeps-blaming-himself
some wanted a 128bit others a 32bit..
50 years before we can just go get one? yea ..
proof of concept? no .. the proof was done several years ago with 1 person and if i remember right the resolution was either 9x9 or 10x10.. this is 1500 dots so at least 15x the resolution.
this is the next step - and i'm sure there will be plenty more.. you just have to take them one at a time.
to many people want to leap into the future and have what we can image now - but you can only do it with baby steps along the way.
or the use of the holodeck/hologram like they used once in voyager.
i still love in Stargate Atlantis - once given transporters - they did the obvious.. beam a nuke over to the enemy ship.. star-trek would never have done that.
it will put this company in an interesting spot for copyright violations - as they are inherently making derivative works on the fly and distributing them, all without permission.
None of which is actionable infringement as I understand United States law. See 17 USC 512(a) and (b), titled "Limitations on liability relating to material online: transitory digital network communications and system caching". This was added to copyright law as part of the DMCA in 1998.
if you read it i'm pretty sure they are going to violate #4
"(4) no copy of the material made by the service provider in the course of such intermediate or transient storage is maintained on the system or network in a manner ordinarily accessible to anyone other than anticipated recipients, and no such copy is maintained on the system or network in a manner ordinarily accessible to such anticipated recipients for a longer period than is reasonably necessary for the transmission, routing, or provision of connections; and"
unless they plan on launching a new process for every connection to the same video and trans coding it every single time (aka zero caching)
but just the fact they are trans-coding means they are violating #5
"(5) the material is transmitted through the system or network without modification of its content."
yea.. this definitely doesn't meet that requirement.. so they don't fall under this.
so some users of the app on the products forums claim it was removed - and this site has a couple of people on twitter say it wasn't?
i'm sorry but i think i would trust the vendors support board before i would trust anything posted on twitter..