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Authored by: cpeterson on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 02:54 AM EDT |
Well, of course he doesn't. If the story had been out about Seagate not only
laying him off, but also suing him, do you think InTeleMax would have hired him
as CEO?
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(by the way, this stuff finally got me curious enough to go read his patent. I
was stunned. If you're not constrained from doing so, it's entertaining, anyway.
Beyond being all the Tivo-revisited stuff, a lot of the specifics are about
recording video data in chunks sized to disk sectors - as a single- or
double-linked list. Yeah, no bother with a file allocation table or file system
or any of that ancient cruft - encode the disk sector usage information IN THE
VIDEO DATA. Supposedly you move all the data so you have one totally empty
platter to store new data on, allowing more efficient writes. But then...
hardcoding file allocation data into the file itself?
Like some of the explanations he gave of how he handled jury deliberations - he
comes across as a guy that Doesn't Quite Get It.)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 05:09 AM EDT |
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