Comment minapl (Score 1) 414
http://minapl.org/ Too bad it never got very far. The author is a bit of a crank
Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming 207
rsk writes "For the last few weeks I've been experiencing terrible streaming video performance from Netflix on both my Xbox 360 and PC. While my Xbox 360 would at least stream at a lower resolution, my PC cannot seem to avoid 2-hr. buffering times before playback even started. I smelled shenanigans and started digging. With some help finding the debug menu for the streaming video player, I set out to figure out why playback was so slow. It seems that Netflix is significantly throttling Watch Instantly users (on the PC) down to an unusable cap — in my case, 48 kbps — on a per-connection basis."
Comment Re:PTO (Score 1) 237
Some of them clearly do, they have a pretty nice website.
I'm not sure if it's the responsibility of the patent office to bring up prior art. I think the entity filing the patent may be responsible for doing so, but obviously there's no strong disincentive. If it were a criminal offense to file a patent in the existence of obvious prior art, maybe we could stop this nonsense.
I'm not sure if it's the responsibility of the patent office to bring up prior art. I think the entity filing the patent may be responsible for doing so, but obviously there's no strong disincentive. If it were a criminal offense to file a patent in the existence of obvious prior art, maybe we could stop this nonsense.
Journal Journal: Back to work!
Well, after a lengthy period of downtime, I'm happy to report that I'm finally back to work. I just started up with Bloomberg two weeks ago, and just yesterday received my first paycheck.
Journal Journal: New Homepage
I'm pleased to announce that I just put up my new homepage. It's not 100% complete yet (there are still some links to parts of the old site) but it's a nice start.
The new site is generated using my new spugweb infrastructure, a system that unifies a set of web technologies that I have been developing for many years now.
So stop by and check out my software and music.
Journal Journal: Karma Excellent!
Woohoo! "Karma: Excellent"! Guess all this sitting around in my underwear reading
Anyway, A few well-placed trolls should take care of this situation.
Journal Journal: Beginning of 2003!
Wow. Didn't think I'd live this long.
The beginning of this year finds me looking for a job, reading Slashdot, playing quake, and writing cool fun software for myself!
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