What if everyone's browser was capable of serving requests for that cached data? This would not be efficient for sites with only a little traffic, but for/.ted sites or CNN and the like, it would work very well. The problem is finding another client that has the data you want cached, this might be resolveable using either peering groups (like routers and gnutella), or using a central server to track it all (like napster).
There're tons of companies/groups working on variations of the same idea. To name a few:
swarmcast, allcast, etc. So far none of them have taken off. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out why.
I don't think this is the proper solution. Letting it lapse gives you no claim to prior art.
I think you miss the point. Prior art doesn't have to have been patented - you just need evidence that the prior art exists, which exactly is what the website in question (ip.com) is trying to do. A provisional patent application will serve this purpose just as well - assuming that the application is in fact kept on file by the PTO even after it lapses.
Why not just submit a provisional patent application? Read a description here. The idea is that you submit a provisional application for a patent, and then follow up with an actual patent application within 12 months. For the purpose of establishing prior art, one can submit the provisional application, but then let it lapse.
It's dirt cheap ($75 for a small entity), and it's a pretty much bullet proof prior art evidence since I believe your application will be kept on file by the PTO (someone correct me if this is not the case).
I don't see why you can't use Monte Carlo methods to estimate Omega. Generate sufficient number of random inputs, assume that a program halts if and only if it halts by some time T, and you can get an increasingly good approximation to omega by increasing T and increasing the number of random inputs.
If I need to use something which is either not available for Linux or that it's not good enough on Linux - then either I reboot or I run VMWare with Windows as a guest (I preffer the latter)...
When I use Windows, I never feel the need to switch to Linux to do something I find that I can't do properly in Window. The reverse isn't true. So the question is, why use Linux in the first place?
If they stayed in the web directory business which started them off (and which is something they are good at) they may not have needed to hire 10,000 people or have huge overhead operating costs, while they would still get much of the traffic and advertisement revenue they do now.
Rubbish. Yahoo wouldn't have a fraction of the traffic it has now if it stuck solely to the web directory business.
How many people who use Yahoo use it solely for its directory/search service?
But don't take my word for it. Look at the media metrix rankings. The top web sites are portals. How many pure search engines are there on the list?
The analysis on kuro5hin is incredibly naive and completely misses the point. For any large or even medium scale website, the cost of bandwidth and hardware is only a small/insignificant fraction of the total operating cost.
The cost of staffing,content generation,and marketing dominate. Take a look at Yahoo's quarterly report:
http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/4q00income_p.html
Yahoo spends about 1/3 of its revenue on sales and marketing (and you can assume that they don't do so because they're stupid). Now where is the cost of bandwidth in there? Any analysis that focuses on bandwidth cost completely misses the point, and is suitable only for tiny hobbyist run websites.
Under Bush NASA will be getting its first funding increase in the last seven years, even if the increase just keeps up with current inflation (more or less).
This is rubbish, as I have posted previously. Clinton increased NASA's budget by 4.8% for FY 01, and that was NASA's first real budget increase in recent times.
Because the Congress consists of elected representatives, while agency bureaucrats have a lot of vested interests in ongoing programs and may not appreciate the full range of national interests.
It may make you feel better to know that Congress has the power to cancel (or deploy) Defense programs as well.
Any post pointing out the irrelevancy of a post pointing out the irrelevancy of a post is itself even more irrelevant and will generate even more uninteresting traffic than the one that originally offended you did.
So, just don't read what you're not interested in.
During the space race of the 60s, spending on R&D (as a % of GDP) reached a record high. R&D expenditure on space alone exceeded the total of all other Federal nondefence spending on R&D.
I am all for space, but it's hard to justify a return to the spending patterns we saw in the 60s. I don't think space is the most important new scientific venture of the decade; the work done in the Life Sciences (i.e. genomics) is probably more fundamental, and more important than the work which can be done on space for the moment - and funding patterns by the US government reflects this, with the NIH receiving the most funding for R&D after defense.
I don't know where you got your bogus figures from. Clinton increased NASA's budget by 4.8% for FY 2001, and Bush increased NASA's budget by 2% for FY 2002.
NASA's budget has remained approximately constant after adjusting for inflation since 1992; Clinton's budget increase for NASA in FY 01 was the first real budget for NASA since then.
Click on an ad - that's been the only method of communication.
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But I'd much prefer being able to do more then click or not - being able to request more info
There are interactive ads that do essentially what you suggest (the mega ads on CNET and some IBM ads).
If the eavesdropper, for example, had a secret way to decode the message saying "start" and it took a minute to do the calculation needed to decode it, it would be too late by the time the eavesdropper got going. The sender and recipient would already have their string of numbers and that string of numbers, once broadcast, could never be retrieved. It would be infeasible to store the endless string of numbers in any computer and so they are essentially gone forever.
I don't understand how this system is unbreakable. The above paragraph seems to assume that the stream of numbers is too large to plausibly store on a computer - but that's not the same as saying that the system is "provably" unbreakable.
"Painting the antenna over an entire box extends the range to about 60 centimeters, but this won't help much on something as small as a can of tuna fish."
I recently saw a British documentary where the TV crew infiltrated a factory run by Gap, supposedly a sweatshop, in Cambodia.
The conditions didn't seem too bad to me - the factory was well lit and clean. The working conditions were probably far superior to the bulk of the jobs you could find in cambodia.
They discovered a few instances of underaged labor, and the company was forced to send the children back to the villages - which makes one wonder whether the documentary crew really did the children a favor, since they lost their job - and it would probably be only a matter of time before they found their way back to the city to find employment.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't understand what the article means when it talks about light bending in the "opposite" direction. Anyone cares to post a diagram?
Slashdot During War?
I can't believe how many people fell for this April Fool's joke.
It's amazing how people are willing to trade money backed by the government of the United States for money backed by a dubious dot com.
What if everyone's browser was capable of serving requests for that cached data? This would not be efficient for sites with only a little traffic, but for /.ted sites or CNN and the like, it would work very well. The problem is finding another client that has the data you want cached, this might be resolveable using either peering groups (like routers and gnutella), or using a central server to track it all (like napster).
There're tons of companies/groups working on variations of the same idea. To name a few:
swarmcast, allcast, etc. So far none of them have taken off. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out why.
When did mario die? Nintendo games are selling extremely well, and the Game Boy is unchallenged in the portable gaming market.
I don't think this is the proper solution. Letting it lapse gives you no claim to prior art.
I think you miss the point. Prior art doesn't have to have been patented - you just need evidence that the prior art exists, which exactly is what the website in question (ip.com) is trying to do. A provisional patent application will serve this purpose just as well - assuming that the application is in fact kept on file by the PTO even after it lapses.
Why not just submit a provisional patent application? Read a description here. The idea is that you submit a provisional application for a patent, and then follow up with an actual patent application within 12 months. For the purpose of establishing prior art, one can submit the provisional application, but then let it lapse.
It's dirt cheap ($75 for a small entity), and it's a pretty much bullet proof prior art evidence since I believe your application will be kept on file by the PTO (someone correct me if this is not the case).
I don't see why you can't use Monte Carlo methods to estimate Omega. Generate sufficient number of random inputs, assume that a program halts if and only if it halts by some time T, and you can get an increasingly good approximation to omega by increasing T and increasing the number of random inputs.
If I need to use something which is either not available for Linux or that it's not good enough on Linux - then either I reboot or I run VMWare with Windows as a guest (I preffer the latter)...
When I use Windows, I never feel the need to switch to Linux to do something I find that I can't do properly in Window. The reverse isn't true. So the question is, why use Linux in the first place?
If they stayed in the web directory business which started them off (and which is something they are good at) they may not have needed to hire 10,000 people or have huge overhead operating costs, while they would still get much of the traffic and advertisement revenue they do now.
Rubbish. Yahoo wouldn't have a fraction of the traffic it has now if it stuck solely to the web directory business.
How many people who use Yahoo use it solely for its directory/search service?
But don't take my word for it. Look at the media metrix rankings. The top web sites are portals. How many pure search engines are there on the list?
By sheer coincidence, William Safire has a column on the invasion of privacy through relentless monitoring in the NYT.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/12/opinion/12SAFI.
What kind of guidance are they giving these robots? Radio/camera or pre-programmed plan?
Wires... the trick is wires.
The analysis on kuro5hin is incredibly naive and completely misses the point. For any large or even medium scale website, the cost of bandwidth and hardware is only a small/insignificant fraction of the total operating cost.
The cost of staffing,content generation,and marketing dominate. Take a look at Yahoo's quarterly report:
http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/4q00income_p.html
Yahoo spends about 1/3 of its revenue on sales and marketing (and you can assume that they don't do so because they're stupid). Now where is the cost of bandwidth in there? Any analysis that focuses on bandwidth cost completely misses the point, and is suitable only for tiny hobbyist run websites.
Under Bush NASA will be getting its first funding increase in the last seven years, even if the increase just keeps up with current inflation (more or less).
This is rubbish, as I have posted previously. Clinton increased NASA's budget by 4.8% for FY 01, and that was NASA's first real budget increase in recent times.
Because the Congress consists of elected representatives, while agency bureaucrats have a lot of vested interests in ongoing programs and may not appreciate the full range of national interests.
It may make you feel better to know that Congress has the power to cancel (or deploy) Defense programs as well.
Remember rule 1 (*) of online discussions:
Any post pointing out the irrelevancy of a post pointing out the irrelevancy of a post is itself even more irrelevant and will generate even more uninteresting traffic than the one that originally offended you did.
So, just don't read what you're not interested in.
During the space race of the 60s, spending on R&D (as a % of GDP) reached a record high. R&D expenditure on space alone exceeded the total of all other Federal nondefence spending on R&D.
I am all for space, but it's hard to justify a return to the spending patterns we saw in the 60s. I don't think space is the most important new scientific venture of the decade; the work done in the Life Sciences (i.e. genomics) is probably more fundamental, and more important than the work which can be done on space for the moment - and funding patterns by the US government reflects this, with the NIH receiving the most funding for R&D after defense.
Developed countries are facing the problem of underpopulation, not overpopulation.
I don't know where you got your bogus figures from. Clinton increased NASA's budget by 4.8% for FY 2001, and Bush increased NASA's budget by 2% for FY 2002.
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NASA's budget has remained approximately constant after adjusting for inflation since 1992; Clinton's budget increase for NASA in FY 01 was the first real budget for NASA since then.
See http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/rd/ca01ag.htm#nasa
and
http://www.space.com/news/spaceagencies/funding_2
Click on an ad - that's been the only method of communication.
....
But I'd much prefer being able to do more then click or not - being able to request more info
There are interactive ads that do essentially what you suggest (the mega ads on CNET and some IBM ads).
Why not read the reviews at amazon, for a more coherent description of what the book is about.
If the eavesdropper, for example, had a secret way to decode the message saying "start" and it took a minute to do the calculation needed to decode it, it would be too late by the time the eavesdropper got going. The sender and recipient would already have their string of numbers and that string of numbers, once broadcast, could never be retrieved. It would be infeasible to store the endless string of numbers in any computer and so they are essentially gone forever.
I don't understand how this system is unbreakable. The above paragraph seems to assume that the stream of numbers is too large to plausibly store on a computer - but that's not the same as saying that the system is "provably" unbreakable.
"Thief...System Shock Series...Deus Ex"
Here's the killer: none of these games sold well. Companies churn out Quake clones for a reason: they make $$$.
You want more companies to make the type of games you named? Show them how to make $$$ from them.
"Painting the antenna over an entire box extends the range to about 60 centimeters, but this won't help much on something as small as a can of tuna fish."
Why not use the tin can itself as the antenna?
I recently saw a British documentary where the TV crew infiltrated a factory run by Gap, supposedly a sweatshop, in Cambodia.
The conditions didn't seem too bad to me - the factory was well lit and clean. The working conditions were probably far superior to the bulk of the jobs you could find in cambodia.
They discovered a few instances of underaged labor, and the company was forced to send the children back to the villages - which makes one wonder whether the documentary crew really did the children a favor, since they lost their job - and it would probably be only a matter of time before they found their way back to the city to find employment.