This would be an excellent idea. There could be a number of ways on rating articles, from the number of times accessed (likely to have a number of false positives in amusing trivia and miss esoteric encyclopaedic articles) or a "dig" style thumbs up/thumbs down rating for encyclopaedic relevance. Perhaps the best would be a 1 to 5 rating from "trivia" to "core encyclopaedic contents". This would allow changes as history progresses, e.g. cold fusion would have started somewhere in the middle and tailed out to trivia. Who knows what might happen in the future....
If they had planned this out they could have had low security installations with signs saying "nuclear arsenal this way". High security installations could have been made to look like training camps. Alternatively they could have laid traps, with signs saying "would the last one out of the missile store please turn off the light", then had a heavy armed presence at all times.
Is that true? If so it defeats the argument that patents are good because they put information into the public domain after a certain time. I rather thought that patenting something removed your right to have copyright protection.
It is very difficult to give advice as you don't really say what your infrastructure is, but I would start by looking at how common your platform is and whether its use is increasing or decreasing. If it is increasing fast there could be a lag between people becoming trained in the technology and demand, but long term it could still be a good option. If it is decreasing then people might see it as a "dead end" technology, and not actively look for work in the area.
Also, try to find other companies who use the same technology, or have switched from it recently. See what their experiences are. Look at other possible reasons, are the salaries you are offering competitive, does the area you are in make recruitment difficult, etc.
Since they switched to the Completely Fair Scheduler to improve performance then it means one or two things. Either they have failed, as it seems to run slower than earlier Linux versions in the BSD test, or the tests that BSD chose are "untypical", maybe selected to show a particular advantage to BSD. I don't have the expertise to tell which, but I would be happier seeing some benchmarks from an independent source rather than BSD.
There is a very real difference when it comes to risk. I remember a formula 1 racing driver from just after the war saying that it was quite acceptable to have a driver killed in every couple of races, after all they had beaten worse odds in the war and you have to die sometime. Imagine a sport with such odds of death today - nobody would allow it.
Then there are wars where "hundreds" of casualties are seen as terrible. Of course for the individuals they are, but in previous conflicts you could lose thousands in a single battle, and if you made ground it was seen as a success.
Interesting, I have seen it written on a number of web sites. It could be partially right, as RCA at the time saw television patents as a strategic revenue stream and presumably were not cheap!
for a non-adherent to refer to the supreme pasta as a monster? I was thinking of drawing a cartoon, but the prospect of a fettucini fatwa on my head was too horrible to contemplate.
Trinitron was invented to avoid paying royalties on the original shadow-mask design. They ended up with a cleared, brighter picture than the original.
I suppose nowadays somebody that didn't invent anything would have patented "sending TV pictures in colour" and everyone would have had to pay royalties to them.
There are people who can do this. Most people have to fit in with office times, school times for their kids and so on. If I unilaterally decide to have DST, bring the kids in to school and hour late, turn up for work an hour late, leave an hour late and pick up the kids an hour later then people won't like it. If the clocks change for everyone at the same time then we get the benefit of DST without the afore-mentioned problems.
In the UK too. When countries are sufficiently far from the equator then DST really makes a difference. Midsummer sunrise would be at 3:40 am without DST, which is a lot of wasted time. It is better to have it in the evening, when sunset is 9:20 pm with DST but it is still light until 11:00 pm because the sun is just below the horizon.
My company has 99.95% connectivity guaranteed by service level agreements. It involves multiple leased lines taking diverse routes into the building and costs a good deal more than a home internet connection.
Flying just after 9/11 I had just this. Boarding took next to no time at all. No fiddling with lockers, trying to find space, everyone just reached their seat and sat down. I really would have liked it to have been made permanent.
Is there any reason a high power laser is needed for reading? Writing may have a power requirement but I would have thought that to read a disk you could make up for a lowered power laser with a higher sensitivity detector.
Since HD DVD used the same lasers and the same compression codecs I believe this would have applied to HD DVD also. This is not a case of "if only HD-DVD had won" but a basic technology problem.
Unless you are planning to legalise conspiracy, incitement, all verbal threats, racial abuse, and shouting "fire" in a crowded auditorium. As far as I know every country has categories that are not covered by free speech.
If your ISP becomes a provider then we really need very strong net-neutrality laws, with means of testing and enforcement. If we don't then throttling back the opposition could become common practice. The internet could end up fragmented with reasonable VOIP, etc. only working between two people using the same provider.
But look at the FUD it gained against OSS. Microsoft won't bring a case themselves, they'll transfer rights to some small company and "license" it back at a rate large enough to fund legal shenanigans.
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This would be an excellent idea. There could be a number of ways on rating articles, from the number of times accessed (likely to have a number of false positives in amusing trivia and miss esoteric encyclopaedic articles) or a "dig" style thumbs up/thumbs down rating for encyclopaedic relevance. Perhaps the best would be a 1 to 5 rating from "trivia" to "core encyclopaedic contents". This would allow changes as history progresses, e.g. cold fusion would have started somewhere in the middle and tailed out to trivia. Who knows what might happen in the future....
Yes, its more like having a poster and saying that nobody reads it. --- Anyone reading this post will be subject to a cease and desist order
If they had planned this out they could have had low security installations with signs saying "nuclear arsenal this way". High security installations could have been made to look like training camps. Alternatively they could have laid traps, with signs saying "would the last one out of the missile store please turn off the light", then had a heavy armed presence at all times.
Is that true? If so it defeats the argument that patents are good because they put information into the public domain after a certain time. I rather thought that patenting something removed your right to have copyright protection.
He talked about bans on pornography...
Most businessmen will want it. It will save the travelling businessmen from the embarrassment of "pay per view" tv stations appearing on the bill.
It is very difficult to give advice as you don't really say what your infrastructure is, but I would start by looking at how common your platform is and whether its use is increasing or decreasing. If it is increasing fast there could be a lag between people becoming trained in the technology and demand, but long term it could still be a good option. If it is decreasing then people might see it as a "dead end" technology, and not actively look for work in the area.
Also, try to find other companies who use the same technology, or have switched from it recently. See what their experiences are. Look at other possible reasons, are the salaries you are offering competitive, does the area you are in make recruitment difficult, etc.
Since they switched to the Completely Fair Scheduler to improve performance then it means one or two things. Either they have failed, as it seems to run slower than earlier Linux versions in the BSD test, or the tests that BSD chose are "untypical", maybe selected to show a particular advantage to BSD. I don't have the expertise to tell which, but I would be happier seeing some benchmarks from an independent source rather than BSD.
There is a very real difference when it comes to risk. I remember a formula 1 racing driver from just after the war saying that it was quite acceptable to have a driver killed in every couple of races, after all they had beaten worse odds in the war and you have to die sometime. Imagine a sport with such odds of death today - nobody would allow it.
Then there are wars where "hundreds" of casualties are seen as terrible. Of course for the individuals they are, but in previous conflicts you could lose thousands in a single battle, and if you made ground it was seen as a success.
Careful. They will be claiming that plan 9 infringes their copyright in hundreds of unspecified places.
Interesting, I have seen it written on a number of web sites. It could be partially right, as RCA at the time saw television patents as a strategic revenue stream and presumably were not cheap!
for a non-adherent to refer to the supreme pasta as a monster? I was thinking of drawing a cartoon, but the prospect of a fettucini fatwa on my head was too horrible to contemplate.
May the sauce be with you.
Trinitron was invented to avoid paying royalties on the original shadow-mask design. They ended up with a cleared, brighter picture than the original.
I suppose nowadays somebody that didn't invent anything would have patented "sending TV pictures in colour" and everyone would have had to pay royalties to them.
There are people who can do this. Most people have to fit in with office times, school times for their kids and so on. If I unilaterally decide to have DST, bring the kids in to school and hour late, turn up for work an hour late, leave an hour late and pick up the kids an hour later then people won't like it. If the clocks change for everyone at the same time then we get the benefit of DST without the afore-mentioned problems.
Try telling a judge that "compliance to the law is a relative term" because everyone infringes a speed limit.
In the UK too. When countries are sufficiently far from the equator then DST really makes a difference. Midsummer sunrise would be at 3:40 am without DST, which is a lot of wasted time. It is better to have it in the evening, when sunset is 9:20 pm with DST but it is still light until 11:00 pm because the sun is just below the horizon.
My company has 99.95% connectivity guaranteed by service level agreements. It involves multiple leased lines taking diverse routes into the building and costs a good deal more than a home internet connection.
Flying just after 9/11 I had just this. Boarding took next to no time at all. No fiddling with lockers, trying to find space, everyone just reached their seat and sat down. I really would have liked it to have been made permanent.
Maybe you brought the disk for home use but wanted to play it when on the road.
Is there any reason a high power laser is needed for reading? Writing may have a power requirement but I would have thought that to read a disk you could make up for a lowered power laser with a higher sensitivity detector.
Since HD DVD used the same lasers and the same compression codecs I believe this would have applied to HD DVD also. This is not a case of "if only HD-DVD had won" but a basic technology problem.
Unless you are planning to legalise conspiracy, incitement, all verbal threats, racial abuse, and shouting "fire" in a crowded auditorium. As far as I know every country has categories that are not covered by free speech.
Filtered by your ISP? ;=)
If your ISP becomes a provider then we really need very strong net-neutrality laws, with means of testing and enforcement. If we don't then throttling back the opposition could become common practice. The internet could end up fragmented with reasonable VOIP, etc. only working between two people using the same provider.
It already is cheaper than gasoline, providing you go for the special offer of one free oxygen atom with every two hydrogen.
But look at the FUD it gained against OSS. Microsoft won't bring a case themselves, they'll transfer rights to some small company and "license" it back at a rate large enough to fund legal shenanigans.