My personal opinion: I don't like their implementation.
I would prefer to see a version which uses a long "tape" which is covered in a thin film and the data recorded using different coloured dots from whiteboard markers.
Like most such schemes (and this is not the first), this won't help against patent trolls, as they don't use patents, and are thus immune to the threat of countersuits. A patent troll is sort of the equivalent of what the SCO Group has become: a company which makes nothing, and whose entire purpose is litigation.
Well... it just needs IBM to join because they have a business methods patent on being a patent troll.
It would never happen. Today's purpose of patents is different from when the concept was created. The use today is to prevent a small or single owner nimble upstart from usurping the business of an incumbent elephant and potentially gutting the cash cow of it's shareholders.
The aforementioned incumbents would fight tooth and nail, with large campaign contributions and gifts, to prevent such a law from ever passing.
I had thought that IBM had a problem with attrition among their mainframe programmers: More of them dying though natural causes than entering the field.
If you need to "run" code, either in your head or on a computer, in order to see what it's going to do, you're probably not really programming and you're definitely not an engineer.
As an added bonus, they can not adhere to RoHS when building their disposable gliders and pollute their enemies with PCBs, lead, cadmium, mercury and lots of other lovely chemicals...
The pointless application of technology just for the simple sake of technology seems a waste.
Now, a subject course where students have to buy and learn to program a $25 computer, no more expensive than a typical textbook, that would be a worthwhile application of technology in schools.
Communism, like Capitalism: I am not actually aware of anywhere which have attempted to implement these pure concepts. Everywhere tends to end up implementing an ad-hoc mish-mash of all three... in varying degrees and proportions.
It has been suspected for quite a long time that there may be a detectable piezoelectric effect before major earthquakes caused by the changing stresses in rocks.
Time will tell if this is the much anticipated cause of the effect that the researcher has found.
Iain M Banks had a spy character in his book "Excession" encode messages on bacteria as a secret communication channel. However, the messages were successfully intercepted.
Station X at Bletchley Park is an important part of our shared history... It marks the beginning of the all electronic digital computing and also of distributed computing (they had up to 10 Collosus working across different locations, by the end of the war). Much groundwork theory was built in that era by people working at that place, including the ideas behind of packet switched data networks and routed networks.
I visited back in 2005 and I hope to go again someday (when I am in the UK).
Personally, I think the problem is in the assumption of fairness; as in first-come first-served.
If network infrastructure instead handled packets in LIFO order, than a large majority of packets will be delivered in a timely manner with a small percentage grossly delayed... or dropped when the LIFO buffers fill up which would eject the oldest packet from the buffer.
Protocols such as TCP would see network congestion effects more rapidly and if packets were dropped, TCP has ways of getting the lost, or grossly delayed, packet retransmitted.
They probably requested a backup and some vendor simply partitioned the hard disk into two and made the backup save to the second partition, meanwhile telling them that the machine has two drive letters.
Meanwhile, they likely paid the vendor millions to maintain the system...
Ireland has been courting globalised corporations for years by offering grant incentives in addition to the low corporation tax. Now, they must learn to compete on a fair and level playing field. If it means a measure of short term pain as corporations jump ship out of the Emerald Isle, then that is just a medicine that Ireland needs to face. They can prevent it of course: Ensure that those corporations considering fleeing see that their Irish employees add significant value to their company and that it would not be worthwhile to move their operations elsewhere.
At the end of the day, it is bad for business when the government is insolvent.
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If its passing is inevitable, I want it as hobbled and useless as possible.
The other option is to have it so overreaching that it becomes impossible to do anything without infringing.
Then the courts will have no choice but to ignore it completely.
My personal opinion: I don't like their implementation.
I would prefer to see a version which uses a long "tape" which is covered in a thin film and the data recorded using different coloured dots from whiteboard markers.
Just my 2.
Like most such schemes (and this is not the first), this won't help against patent trolls, as they don't use patents, and are thus immune to the threat of countersuits. A patent troll is sort of the equivalent of what the SCO Group has become: a company which makes nothing, and whose entire purpose is litigation.
Well... it just needs IBM to join because they have a business methods patent on being a patent troll.
From TFA:
Seems reasonable to refuse on those grounds alone.
FWIW, this is my personal opinion:
It would never happen. Today's purpose of patents is different from when the concept was created. The use today is to prevent a small or single owner nimble upstart from usurping the business of an incumbent elephant and potentially gutting the cash cow of it's shareholders.
The aforementioned incumbents would fight tooth and nail, with large campaign contributions and gifts, to prevent such a law from ever passing.
I had thought that IBM had a problem with attrition among their mainframe programmers: More of them dying though natural causes than entering the field.
There is something undeniably very sexy about the female British voice.
I am British and I would disagree with your statement.
If you need to "run" code, either in your head or on a computer, in order to see what it's going to do, you're probably not really programming and you're definitely not an engineer.
We have a cocaine fountain in the lobby? Why does no one tell me of these things?
As an added bonus, they can not adhere to RoHS when building their disposable gliders and pollute their enemies with PCBs, lead, cadmium, mercury and lots of other lovely chemicals...
The pointless application of technology just for the simple sake of technology seems a waste.
Now, a subject course where students have to buy and learn to program a $25 computer, no more expensive than a typical textbook, that would be a worthwhile application of technology in schools.
*sighs*
Windows XP Pro has Services for Unix + support for NFS.
The _cheapest_ edition of Windows 7 which has equivalent functionality is Windows 7 Ultimate.
I can think of many far better ways to spend $300+.
It's more telling when you add GOOG and AAPL to the same graph...
Over the last 10 years, MSFT is near 0% growth, GOOG is a little under 500% growth.... AAPL is around 4000% growth.
That makes MSFT a poor long-term investment choice.
Communism, like Capitalism: I am not actually aware of anywhere which have attempted to implement these pure concepts.
Everywhere tends to end up implementing an ad-hoc mish-mash of all three... in varying degrees and proportions.
It has been suspected for quite a long time that there may be a detectable piezoelectric effect before major earthquakes caused by the changing stresses in rocks.
Time will tell if this is the much anticipated cause of the effect that the researcher has found.
Iain M Banks had a spy character in his book "Excession" encode messages on bacteria as a secret communication channel. However, the messages were successfully intercepted.
Good book. I enjoy his Culture novels.
Station X at Bletchley Park is an important part of our shared history... It marks the beginning of the all electronic digital computing and also of distributed computing (they had up to 10 Collosus working across different locations, by the end of the war). Much groundwork theory was built in that era by people working at that place, including the ideas behind of packet switched data networks and routed networks.
I visited back in 2005 and I hope to go again someday (when I am in the UK).
Nicola Tesla invented a bladeless turbine nearly 100 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_turbine
Yikes! I think I will wait for natural gas (methane) fuel cells to be rugged enough for use in vehicles. Much safer than hydrogen.
Personally, I think the problem is in the assumption of fairness; as in first-come first-served.
If network infrastructure instead handled packets in LIFO order, than a large majority of packets will be delivered in a timely manner with a small percentage grossly delayed... or dropped when the LIFO buffers fill up which would eject the oldest packet from the buffer.
Protocols such as TCP would see network congestion effects more rapidly and if packets were dropped, TCP has ways of getting the lost, or grossly delayed, packet retransmitted.
3000 sensors deployed used to monitor 15000 parking spaces... It would be interesting to find out how such buried sensors could do that.
IBM should invest serious money/time in ReactOS and WINE ... and encourage the liberation of Mono...
They probably requested a backup and some vendor simply partitioned the hard disk into two and made the backup save to the second partition, meanwhile telling them that the machine has two drive letters.
Meanwhile, they likely paid the vendor millions to maintain the system...
Ireland has been courting globalised corporations for years by offering grant incentives in addition to the low corporation tax. Now, they must learn to compete on a fair and level playing field. If it means a measure of short term pain as corporations jump ship out of the Emerald Isle, then that is just a medicine that Ireland needs to face. They can prevent it of course: Ensure that those corporations considering fleeing see that their Irish employees add significant value to their company and that it would not be worthwhile to move their operations elsewhere.
At the end of the day, it is bad for business when the government is insolvent.
Probably because malware organisations have discovered an ancient and dark evil who would further their cause ... for a price.
They're called: Lawyers.