But, using XOR to draw to the screen (a very simple exclusive-or logical operation) is patented. That's like patenting using ADD instructions.
No it's not. Using XOR to draw a cursor on the screen is patented. That is a very specific application of the XOR operation. If you told 10 people they had to draw a cursor on the screan, would they come up with using XOR? Probably not. Most will just draw the cursor with the foreground color. But the beauty of using XOR is that the cursor is drawn and is visible no matter where it is drawn, and it is easily erased with another XOR. It's an algorithm that solves a small problem well and probably would not be thought of by most who ar given the problem and haven't heard this before, like a retractable spindle for an earpiece on a cellular phone.
Hardware patents are abhorrent to me insofar as all patentable hardware is pure physics (physical processess - object like paintings and sculptures are copyrightable expressions, but not patentable). To patent hareware is to grant a government-enforced monopoly on a set of physical operations to a person or group.
Yes, that means if you perform or cause to be performed a set of physical operations that someone else has patented, and are discovered, men with guns will come and stop you. Only the patent holders (and licensees, if applicable) are allowed to do this application of physics; because it's a patent, it doesn't matter if you derived these physical operations independently or not.
It's hard for me to articulate the degree to which I feel this represents an unconsionable hindrance in the advancement of human understanding. What does society gain by having the government say who may perform what physical operations by beaurocratic fiat?
The point is that you don't have to seek a directory (A) of files you wish to move to another directory (C) and then go seek a directory (B) of files you also wish to move to (C), and then seek (C). In this case, you seek (A), put the files in your handful. Seek (B), add more file to your handful, and then seek (C), and drop your handfull.
I think a more general and useful thing would be to modify the copy/cut/paste to add an two new features: copy and append to clipboard/cut and append to clipboard (maybe ctrl-shift-c and x?). This would extend the model beyond just file systems, and be very useful in text editing. There are too many times that I paste, just to append to what I copy (then delete what I pasted).
Don't forget the enhanced calculator. That's right, you can set it to scientific. It's a pretty damn good replacement for many other calcs, and better than the freeware ones (if you hate RPN as much as I do).
I disagree that the expansion slot is a bell and whistle. I have a visor with the backup module, and find it unbelievably useful, If only for my piece of mind. Whenever I get a really important number or other piece of data, I backup to the flash ROM. Before I do an install of new software, I back up to the flash ROM. Yeah, HotSync will save your data, but it doesn't save your apps, and HS ain't perfect. Plus, I have been known to loose my visor at times (now is such a time, actually, been lost for 4 weeks), and even though the batteries run dry in that time, all the data is there.
I'd rather have the colour of the Prism. That plus an Minstrel modem with OmniSky, and PalmVNC, I can connect to my linux box from anywhere, and have the nice rich full colour of my KDE desktop.
For these old games, playing a downloaded version is not good enough. You need the manual. The one for LSL3 had the "Never Never eat" song which was the path through the forest (take the first letter of each word: N for north, E for east, etc), as well as other important clues for the game presented in a humourous and subtle fashion that an onlne walkthrough won't give. To really play LSL3, you have to spend hours looking through the Noontonyte advertisements trying to make sence of it all.
For sky scrapers to be built that high, they have to apply for the ability. It's part of zoning, but it relates tot he fact tha tyou can't just decide to put up a sky scraper beside an airport just because you own the land. Here in florida, there are a lot of laws concerning how high you can build, although a lot of that relates to safety and hurricanes. You are still retricted.
Not to kill the humour, but for those newbies out there, init.d should contain you actual physical files, while rc?.d contains symlinks to them, with the appropriate prepending for load instruction and order.
The real problem is that in order to test if a program does what it is supposed to do, you must express what the program is supposed to do. A correct program is an isomorphism to the expression of what it is supposed to do. You can therefore look at it two ways: to express the requirements of the program is as much work as writing the program, or (a better way of looking at it) writing the program is how you express what the program is supposed to do.
Why are you using a laser for such a short distance? There are many shorter distance viable wireless technologies that would be resistant to your heat problem.
You do not actually have to lay the fiber. Image that you wanted to connect two building but didn't own the land between them (possibly bisected by a road). Then you would want a wireless solution, although not this one, as there are better short range solutions. Let's say they were miles apart, then you would need something like a laser that does not degrade over great distances.
I agree with another post stating essentially, that the TCP protocol will handle the data loss, and UDP data is (should be) designed to do well with a little corruption (a raindrop may screw an instant of voice data up, but it won't really be noticed by the listener (and you thought digital meant no quality loss, ha!)).
I can't see short distances being the use for these. It would be easier to make a parabolic mirror with an led to do the tx. This would make a larger beam, less susceptable to weather, but not as strong as a laser which would be better for long distances. Plus, someone in this thread mentioned fiber: fiber has to be laid. The point of wireless is to not have to lay fiber.
It's actually better than that. 10% of 4GB is 400MB. 10% of 400GB is 40GB. In the first case, you can have an extra CD. I agree that a 10% savings is nothing to sneeze at.
If you're in Colifornia then this agreement would not be binding, according to California Labor Code Section 2870. Basically it states that the invention has to be related to your work at the time on inception.
I found opposite research findings while studying psychology. It found that people who are widely differentiated from each other in terms of physical attractiveness are unlikely to be a well suited match. A differential leads to insecurity on one partners behalf, which then leads to resenment on the others.
Regardless of whether it's right or wrong, our society bases partnering on physical attractiveness, and as such people who use that as a metric of who they partner (although not the only metric) with are likely making the right choice. In general, whatever the society deems "attractive," be it thinness or largeness, or money, or stature, the partnering process will typically result in long term good matches and short term bad matches. Thus, it is a postive sum game.
1) If you didn't want people to hack on the code, why did you initially release it under a license that allowed that? It can't be retroactively retracted, y'know...
2) The OpenSSH team doesn't need your approval; you in effect gave them your approval when you licensed it as you did (see 1).
It's pretty clear from the whole text that this is not his gripe. He doesn't care that they are hacking the systema and he knows he gave them that right with the license. What he cares about is that it "is also a derivative of my original SSH Secure Shell product, and it still looks
very much like my product". The paragraph you quited talks about how the cofusion is worse. This all related to the same thing. They are using the SSH trademark, and there are actualy damages in the confusion because customers continue to use the older code thinking it's an equivelent product.
In short, I doubt he would mind them continuing to use the old code base, as long as they change their name.
Even given monogomy, finding a partner is ideally a postitive sume game. This is because if you are well matched to your partner, then you both will get more enjoyment out of each other than the expected value of them paired with another. Note that you only have to be slightly better matched to your partner than the average.
Think of 100 people. The first finds a parter slightly better suited to them than the average. The next then does the same, etc, etc. It is cetainly possible (and in reality likely) that the total happiness is higher than if no one evey matched up.
This is the same principle that shows that trade is positive sum. You have M&Ms, I have gummi bears. We trade half for half, and because of the law of diminishing returns, we come out of the trade with more enjoyment. Partnering is supposed to com out of the trade with more enjoyment. When you consider the whole system, it's still positive sum, because some people are incompatible while others are a good fit (this would be more like me having M&Ms and you having gummis and neither of us like what we have but like the others. We trade our candy, or partners, and we are more happy for it).
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No it's not. Using XOR to draw a cursor on the screen is patented. That is a very specific application of the XOR operation. If you told 10 people they had to draw a cursor on the screan, would they come up with using XOR? Probably not. Most will just draw the cursor with the foreground color. But the beauty of using XOR is that the cursor is drawn and is visible no matter where it is drawn, and it is easily erased with another XOR. It's an algorithm that solves a small problem well and probably would not be thought of by most who ar given the problem and haven't heard this before, like a retractable spindle for an earpiece on a cellular phone.
Hardware patents are abhorrent to me insofar as all patentable hardware is pure physics (physical processess - object like paintings and sculptures are copyrightable expressions, but not patentable). To patent hareware is to grant a government-enforced monopoly on a set of physical operations to a person or group. Yes, that means if you perform or cause to be performed a set of physical operations that someone else has patented, and are discovered, men with guns will come and stop you. Only the patent holders (and licensees, if applicable) are allowed to do this application of physics; because it's a patent, it doesn't matter if you derived these physical operations independently or not. It's hard for me to articulate the degree to which I feel this represents an unconsionable hindrance in the advancement of human understanding. What does society gain by having the government say who may perform what physical operations by beaurocratic fiat?
I think a more general and useful thing would be to modify the copy/cut/paste to add an two new features: copy and append to clipboard/cut and append to clipboard (maybe ctrl-shift-c and x?). This would extend the model beyond just file systems, and be very useful in text editing. There are too many times that I paste, just to append to what I copy (then delete what I pasted).
Don't forget the enhanced calculator. That's right, you can set it to scientific. It's a pretty damn good replacement for many other calcs, and better than the freeware ones (if you hate RPN as much as I do).
and yes, there is a regexp hack for the PalmOS find utility
I disagree that the expansion slot is a bell and whistle. I have a visor with the backup module, and find it unbelievably useful, If only for my piece of mind. Whenever I get a really important number or other piece of data, I backup to the flash ROM. Before I do an install of new software, I back up to the flash ROM. Yeah, HotSync will save your data, but it doesn't save your apps, and HS ain't perfect. Plus, I have been known to loose my visor at times (now is such a time, actually, been lost for 4 weeks), and even though the batteries run dry in that time, all the data is there.
I'd rather have the colour of the Prism. That plus an Minstrel modem with OmniSky, and PalmVNC, I can connect to my linux box from anywhere, and have the nice rich full colour of my KDE desktop.
Where personal encryption is illegal?
For these old games, playing a downloaded version is not good enough. You need the manual. The one for LSL3 had the "Never Never eat" song which was the path through the forest (take the first letter of each word: N for north, E for east, etc), as well as other important clues for the game presented in a humourous and subtle fashion that an onlne walkthrough won't give. To really play LSL3, you have to spend hours looking through the Noontonyte advertisements trying to make sence of it all.
Isn't that being developed by O'Reilly?
For sky scrapers to be built that high, they have to apply for the ability. It's part of zoning, but it relates tot he fact tha tyou can't just decide to put up a sky scraper beside an airport just because you own the land. Here in florida, there are a lot of laws concerning how high you can build, although a lot of that relates to safety and hurricanes. You are still retricted.
Not to kill the humour, but for those newbies out there, init.d should contain you actual physical files, while rc?.d contains symlinks to them, with the appropriate prepending for load instruction and order.
The real problem is that in order to test if a program does what it is supposed to do, you must express what the program is supposed to do. A correct program is an isomorphism to the expression of what it is supposed to do. You can therefore look at it two ways: to express the requirements of the program is as much work as writing the program, or (a better way of looking at it) writing the program is how you express what the program is supposed to do.
Why are you using a laser for such a short distance? There are many shorter distance viable wireless technologies that would be resistant to your heat problem.
You do not actually have to lay the fiber. Image that you wanted to connect two building but didn't own the land between them (possibly bisected by a road). Then you would want a wireless solution, although not this one, as there are better short range solutions. Let's say they were miles apart, then you would need something like a laser that does not degrade over great distances. I agree with another post stating essentially, that the TCP protocol will handle the data loss, and UDP data is (should be) designed to do well with a little corruption (a raindrop may screw an instant of voice data up, but it won't really be noticed by the listener (and you thought digital meant no quality loss, ha!)).
I can't see short distances being the use for these. It would be easier to make a parabolic mirror with an led to do the tx. This would make a larger beam, less susceptable to weather, but not as strong as a laser which would be better for long distances. Plus, someone in this thread mentioned fiber: fiber has to be laid. The point of wireless is to not have to lay fiber.
It's actually better than that. 10% of 4GB is 400MB. 10% of 400GB is 40GB. In the first case, you can have an extra CD. I agree that a 10% savings is nothing to sneeze at.
If you're in Colifornia then this agreement would not be binding, according to California Labor Code Section 2870. Basically it states that the invention has to be related to your work at the time on inception.
Yes, but moonshine on the moon is likely to be brighter than earthshine on the moon.
We could call it a Woody Allen complex
Regardless of whether it's right or wrong, our society bases partnering on physical attractiveness, and as such people who use that as a metric of who they partner (although not the only metric) with are likely making the right choice. In general, whatever the society deems "attractive," be it thinness or largeness, or money, or stature, the partnering process will typically result in long term good matches and short term bad matches. Thus, it is a postive sum game.
2) The OpenSSH team doesn't need your approval; you in effect gave them your approval when you licensed it as you did (see 1).
It's pretty clear from the whole text that this is not his gripe. He doesn't care that they are hacking the systema and he knows he gave them that right with the license. What he cares about is that it "is also a derivative of my original SSH Secure Shell product, and it still looks very much like my product". The paragraph you quited talks about how the cofusion is worse. This all related to the same thing. They are using the SSH trademark, and there are actualy damages in the confusion because customers continue to use the older code thinking it's an equivelent product.
In short, I doubt he would mind them continuing to use the old code base, as long as they change their name.
Think of 100 people. The first finds a parter slightly better suited to them than the average. The next then does the same, etc, etc. It is cetainly possible (and in reality likely) that the total happiness is higher than if no one evey matched up.
This is the same principle that shows that trade is positive sum. You have M&Ms, I have gummi bears. We trade half for half, and because of the law of diminishing returns, we come out of the trade with more enjoyment. Partnering is supposed to com out of the trade with more enjoyment. When you consider the whole system, it's still positive sum, because some people are incompatible while others are a good fit (this would be more like me having M&Ms and you having gummis and neither of us like what we have but like the others. We trade our candy, or partners, and we are more happy for it).
and even then always use xvf in command line mode. no news is only handy in shellscripts, which can DISPLAY= at their top