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Jan. 28th, 2004
Patent Prior Art Madness
Jan. 28th, 2004 01:07 pmThe Patent granted on "a method for assigning URL's and e-mail addresses to members of a group comprising the steps of: assigning each member of said group a URL of the form name.subdomain.domain and assigning each member of said group an e-mail address of the form name@subdomain.domain.'
Slashdot comment:
Slashdot comment:
You know what's funny? the USPTO is supposed to do prior art research to grant patents. Well guess where you can find prior art for this method? at the USPTO itself. Here for example:
estta.uspto.gov is a live server, and
estta@uspto.gov is a valid email address at USPTO.
You gotta love these guys ...
On the Howard Dean Anger Management Issue
Jan. 28th, 2004 01:22 pmAs i've stated in person before to some, the scream speech was taken utterly out of context. in this case, it was the context of location, not context of the rest of the speech.
A journalist was interviewed on WTOP last week, who had been in the room at the start of the speech and left for a smoke and watched the rest of it on the TV at the TV/Satellite transmitter van.
What the camera and boom-mikes failed to catch was the ambiance of the room. It was crowded like a sold out rock concert in a club, and as loud to match. What Dean did worked quite well for the crowd and their excitement level, and was the kind of loud volume anybody on stage would need to be to shout above a non-stop cheering/talking party.
However, the mic, close-in and focused solely on Dean with no "mixdown" of the crowd noise (the way, say, a rock concert would be mixed to CD) failed to catch the sound of the crowds, making it sound and look like Dean was shouting at the top of his lungs to nobody.
Try to imagine Metallica's Hatfield singing in a "Front of House" PA mix, with no mics to catch the crowd or even the echo of the room, and no effects, but Hatfield singing to a full house and above the guitar noise and all that. Isolated out, it would sound like utter shit. I have a Dream Theater recording of a festival gig that sounds awful because they put no ambiant noise or echo effects onto LaBrie's vocals; the sound recorded was solely the FOH mix.
As for going negative against Bush, its too early. The positive image still needs to be promoted right now, and only go on the negative when ALL the mistakes of BushCo get revealed. Bush and Co REALLY want these things revealed as soon as possible, so that they're forgotten about when the election roles around.
Its in the better interests of the DNC right now to lie quiet and collect them all, and then barage the public with the collection of bad moves in september before remounting a positive "how we'll do it better" campaign in october.
Or at least, that's my opinion, and I only got a C in 12th grade gov class.
A journalist was interviewed on WTOP last week, who had been in the room at the start of the speech and left for a smoke and watched the rest of it on the TV at the TV/Satellite transmitter van.
What the camera and boom-mikes failed to catch was the ambiance of the room. It was crowded like a sold out rock concert in a club, and as loud to match. What Dean did worked quite well for the crowd and their excitement level, and was the kind of loud volume anybody on stage would need to be to shout above a non-stop cheering/talking party.
However, the mic, close-in and focused solely on Dean with no "mixdown" of the crowd noise (the way, say, a rock concert would be mixed to CD) failed to catch the sound of the crowds, making it sound and look like Dean was shouting at the top of his lungs to nobody.
Try to imagine Metallica's Hatfield singing in a "Front of House" PA mix, with no mics to catch the crowd or even the echo of the room, and no effects, but Hatfield singing to a full house and above the guitar noise and all that. Isolated out, it would sound like utter shit. I have a Dream Theater recording of a festival gig that sounds awful because they put no ambiant noise or echo effects onto LaBrie's vocals; the sound recorded was solely the FOH mix.
As for going negative against Bush, its too early. The positive image still needs to be promoted right now, and only go on the negative when ALL the mistakes of BushCo get revealed. Bush and Co REALLY want these things revealed as soon as possible, so that they're forgotten about when the election roles around.
Its in the better interests of the DNC right now to lie quiet and collect them all, and then barage the public with the collection of bad moves in september before remounting a positive "how we'll do it better" campaign in october.
Or at least, that's my opinion, and I only got a C in 12th grade gov class.