Incorrect. From a legal standpoint, Intellectual Property refers to any non-tangible property right. If you can hold it in your hand it is real property or a chattel, if not it is intellectual property. It is a umbrella phrase for Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and the like.

I have the Cyberpack 9 and it does all of this plus more as well. I traveled through the middle east with 2 Nikon camera bodies, 4 lenses, external flash, a Tascam audio recorder, an olympus voice recorder, a full size Maha battery charger, 2 nikon battery chargers, a dozen chargable AA batteries in holders, a Dell 15" notebook and its charger, with a tripod and a monopod attached to the sides. Definitely consider a CyberPack.

Incorrect for NY. I live in NY and have friends and family members who are cops. You will not get pulled over in NY unless you are doing 15 over the speed limit with the exception of some of the "tourist trap" small towns that make most of their budget from tickets. On the NY Thruway, the Long Island Expressway or any of the other major arteries I do 13 over every day and the last ticket I got was 20 years ago, and I drive a mustang convertible these days with very loud mufflers , I don't exactly blend.

Not at all. It is standard in the patent world to make the thing that you actually want to patent be the middle claim. The reasons are many and varied, but you can jump right to the thing that any company actually wants to get the patent upon by checking the center claim. There are 20 claims here, so it is likely this one: 10. The method of claim 1, further comprising: detecting that another allocation mode is to be used to allocate one or more buffers for the process; and dynamically deactivating the allocation mode that enables the determining in real-time, wherein the dynamically deactivating includes turning off an indicator in the process to deactivate the allocation mode, and wherein another dynamically allocated memory buffer for the process is allocated based on the another allocation mode, said another dynamically allocated memory buffer being allocated without additional memory as a guard.

I switched from Cablevision to FIOS after my promo pricing ran out and cablevision wanted to up my rates to about $120/month. I pay a few dollars less for FIOS but I get more channels, less compression, hundreds of on-demand movies and TV shows for free and much faster Interbet speeds. The downsides are no Usenet and a router with minimal memory for its ARP table - only a problem when trying to download the latest Fedora by Torrent. Also, while you do have a contract with FIOS, it is only for one year, it is the price guarantee that they give you that is for two years - you can cut off after one with no penalty. If you really do want to cut off though, Cablevision will pay the penalty for you to get you back.

In any area where there is a neighborhood that will not work. We have some very good friends who are not particularly computer literate. I am very close with them and with their kids. They secured their router and put time restrictions and everythign else on them./ About a week later at 11pm I saw their middle daughter online and IM'd her "On the neighbor's router?" "Of course." I had a talk with the parents, took the kids' laptops for an afternoon. Explained to them that I now had logs of everything that was going on, just as I had done for my kids. I showed them quick excerpts from the logs. They have been good every since now that I am packet sniffing everything that goes on from within their own machines. I occasionally take a quick (and I do mean quick) look through all of the logs just to make sure that nothing particularly nasty has been happening. Aside from catching my son on porn sites, nothing really has. Ronald Reagan said it best: "Trust but verify". Kids get that. W

I am a computer professional and manager for the last 25 years or so. I do hire entry level coders on occasion, and when I do they often get the job that you are looking for. With that said, let me tell you what the people I have hired have done to impress me.

(1) Show me not only your code but your interface. I need to know that you can look at a problem and determine what information you need and that you can present the results in a usable manner. It does not have to look great - that is why we have designers. They will made the info look good.

(2) Explain to me the real world problem that you solved with this code. I do not care that you can move discs from one peg to another in size order. I do care that you figured out that I was spending too much time verifying that the home page on my 15 web servers returned exactly the same code.

(3) Use full sentences. In all communications, be they on paper or in conversation with me. I do not ever want to see an emoticon or "u r" in a business communication.

(4) Turn your cell phone off during the interview. If there is a true potential for an emergency, explain it to me when the interview starts and I will make allowances, but during the interview I expect to have your full attention.

(5) DO NOT come to your interview with me in a suit. I showed up for my last interview in a t-shirt and jeans. I am now putting together a new department at that company. How did I know? I asked ahead of time. "What is the dress code there? Less than business casual? Would it be acceptable for me to dress that way for the interview? Not only acceptable but appreciated, great!"

(6) This is the really important one... Tell me about your home computers, what operating systems you have running, how you use them and what cool projects you experimented with lately. You have a Linux server and just set up a UPnP server to serve your home media? That is fantastic! On that alone I might hire you if the rest is borderline. That proves to me that you not only know how to learn, but you are excited to do so.

Good Luck!
Warren

Read the OP - he wants a machine that will play Oblivion and output 1080p HDMI to a TV set. That sounds like mostly GPU-heavy specs to me.

nice does not affect i/o. File sharing takes little CPU time, which is what you will be affecting, so the net result will be a minimal slowdown, if anything at all.

I did demand to use Linux at work. I was in a position to do so, and as I was hired to be the lead developer for the only linux-based system they have it made sense. After a bit of red tape I was eventually given a second machine and told that I had to do my own tech support, which to be was great. Turns out I ended up teaching a lot of people about Fedora and how to load it and administer it. I still have a Windows box on my desk for email, although I use rdesktop rather than the switch box to access it.

It's about time AT&T put some money into the network. The coverage and the dropped calls suck. I can't wait for the 2 year contract to be up. Seriously, it was only a few years ago that the US had the best networks around and was on the cutting edge with cell phones. But we are seriously lagging now. AT&T wanted the iPhone but thought they would be able to grab it without infrastructure upgrades Be careful AT&T - no good deed goes unpunished!