The big question is: do you have the '386 DX Microprocessor Programmer's Reference Manual'??
I have two copies. Linus references it in one of his syllabuses of the books he used to create Linux. It's very much extremely rare in this day and age.
Of course, I also have multiple versions of Isis on original diskettes, with original documentation (and original Intel hardware to run it on)
Also an original printed CP/M-80 manual (those were rare even when they were current- very few people actually bought CP/M manuals, most people just ran 'copies' of CP/M-80 they got from here or there.)
That sounds like a tragic story that could have ended otherwise.
In the future tethers should be issued with all Blackberries, so that if such an incident occurs again, the chance increases that the sales-type person will also pulled into the vat. It's just a shame that a Blackberry had to be sacrificed with no net benefit for the incident.
Development and deployment of infringing devices that totally pollute the spectra, rendering all the other whitespace devices unusable. It's a 'lets all get along' area of the spectrum. None of the unlicensed devices have to not infringing on other unlicensed devices, do they? Your neighbor is jamming your over-the-air TV reception? Buy a "Widget N" from an NAB-sponsored website. It uses two AA batteries and makes your neighbors whitespace device totally unusable. All for a low price of $3. Widget N is a simple very inexpensive small black box with no controls except one button. It performs the amusing function of making a 'remote module' on your roof blink a pretty light pattern. It's a wireless holiday decoration. That's allowed, isn't it? As long as it only infringes on other whitespace devices it's okay, right?
All the NAB has to do is distribute some sensitive equipment, with training manuals, to a number of people around the country. They train how to detect infringing devices. They follow the steps in the manual to report the infringing devices. A crack legal team at the NAB receives notifications from said people.
I imagine it wouldn't be hard for a lot of cease and desist orders to be issued at a fairly low cost per order, if a well-organized campaign was organized. Said group of trained people proceed to run whitespace device vendors out of market with a 'chipping away' strategy of driving the whitespace device customers into returning the infringing devices to stores where they were purchased.
Remember, these devices can only be used if they are non-infringing on other, licensed uses. A small army of well-trained advocates of watching TV for free would be easy to pull together.
Here's your clue for the night: "everything deregulated" would mean no copyrights. Copyrights are a form of regulation. So how does Microsoft maintain their monopoly?
'Everything' is an expensive term to use, needless to say.
It's been fashionable to smack Apple around almost since the launch of the Macintosh. When Jobs gloated that the Mac was 'hacker proof' at a press conference at the product release, a lot of us made up our minds. The FSF had a rather active anti-Apple campaign coming out of Apple's look-and-feel litigation** for many years. Apple has been seen as a bad operator for years and never, ever done more than partially redeem themselves for their past practices.
(**Apple essentially tried to lock up the GUI and prevent any other software from using a graphical interface. They ran most competitors out of the market, clearing the way for Microsoft to eventually be the only GUI vendor on the PC.)
where was IBM when Apple needed faster & low power portable notebook chips?
They were out making money. Where was Apple? Oh, that's right. They were busy licensing their logo and trademarks to go under the bottle cap on Pepsi products.
To draw all the girls, I use In*A*Vision on Windows 1.03. There is a runtime version of Windows 1.03 in the install diskettes for Micrografx In*A*Vision, which I have a complete install set of, manuals and diskettes.
(In*A*Vision is the predecessor of Micrografx Designer, and the first vector-based drawing program for Windows- it runs great on an IBM XT with 640k)
My concern is how the components depicted on the schematic are going to be made out of rocks and nuts and berries, even if the schematic is readable.
There is a thick complex web of technologies needed to replicate said drive.
And I say this as somebody who has the complete Technical Reference information for the IBM PC. (that means I have the schematic diagram of the 10mb hard drive, and the schematic diagram of the hard disk controller, along with the source code for the BIOS extension on said controller)
Not just 'retraining.' Also 'loss of productivity' during the conversion period. With 2500 seats that would almost certainly work out to a lot more than $200k. And with portions of it unmeasurable, it's a dangerous step to take, when a mere $200k annual buries the cost safely in the IT budget.
There are a number of nice adaptations of Ghostscript out there that let you make decent PDFs of any document at all in Windows. It simply substitutes as a psuedo-printer and outputs to a PDF. So you can 'print to PDF' from any Windows app that has a print function. The one I like is PdfCreator and yes, it's a free download. A nice integrated Windows.exe installer in fact. There are also commercial wrap-ups of it for people uncomfortable with not paying for their software. But heck, there are people hawking OpenOffice on eBay under different names too.
I hate the thought that you're using OOo just because you can make PDFs with it.
I didn't think any of you WordPerfect folks were still around.
I was a Microsoft Word user going back to the DOS versions. In fact, I used Word as my editor for some huge Assembly Language programs by using it in plain text mode exclusively.
The old story about the popularity of WordPerfect was that they did a tremendous job of evangelizing. The menu structure of WordPerfect was so arcane and complex (and with no visible menu at all until version 5.0) that every office had a 'WordPerfect god' who others could ask. "Yes, you hit alt-control-left_shift-right-flipperbutton-f3 to indent right justified text in footnotes." Said 'god' (actually 'goddess'- often a fat secretary who was unpopular in all other respects) was the expert and a loud champion of WordPerfect.
If you want the kind of control and power that you describe, you wanted to be running FrameMaker on a Sun box. I mean, please. Wordperfect? Yeah. Kinda the same thing as being an AMD zealot. "Fight the man, maaan!"
There are plenty of Windows users that have an old version of Office and see no point in tossing it.
That is the paradox of Linux on the desktop.
People who struggle with OpenOffice or any of the other Free Software/Open Source applications forget how refined things are in the commercial software world. I can remember a few years back being jubilant that I finally had a Linux desktop setup all working smoothly to do reasonable WYSIWYG text and graphics editing. I even had a decent vector-based drawing package integrated in. But after awhile I realized 'hey, this is about as good as Office 4.3 was on Windows 3.11 with Micrografx Designer' (substitute Corel Draw if you prefer.)
Your rant kind of reminds me of the way Democrats froth when a pundit decloaks as a conservative by referring to the Democratic Party as the 'Democrat Party.'
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The big question is: do you have the '386 DX Microprocessor Programmer's Reference Manual'??
I have two copies. Linus references it in one of his syllabuses of the books he used to create Linux. It's very much extremely rare in this day and age.
Of course, I also have multiple versions of Isis on original diskettes, with original documentation (and original Intel hardware to run it on)
Also an original printed CP/M-80 manual (those were rare even when they were current- very few people actually bought CP/M manuals, most people just ran 'copies' of CP/M-80 they got from here or there.)
I've written code that runs at 32KHz. It's a great way to run code that never, ever, shuts down off a coin battery for a few years.
That sounds like a tragic story that could have ended otherwise.
In the future tethers should be issued with all Blackberries, so that if such an incident occurs again, the chance increases that the sales-type person will also pulled into the vat. It's just a shame that a Blackberry had to be sacrificed with no net benefit for the incident.
Geeks are like Mules. They are a cross-bred animal and almost always sterile.
don't be redundant.
I see a growth industry:
Development and deployment of infringing devices that totally pollute the spectra, rendering all the other whitespace devices unusable. It's a 'lets all get along' area of the spectrum. None of the unlicensed devices have to not infringing on other unlicensed devices, do they? Your neighbor is jamming your over-the-air TV reception? Buy a "Widget N" from an NAB-sponsored website. It uses two AA batteries and makes your neighbors whitespace device totally unusable. All for a low price of $3. Widget N is a simple very inexpensive small black box with no controls except one button. It performs the amusing function of making a 'remote module' on your roof blink a pretty light pattern. It's a wireless holiday decoration. That's allowed, isn't it? As long as it only infringes on other whitespace devices it's okay, right?
All the NAB has to do is distribute some sensitive equipment, with training manuals, to a number of people around the country. They train how to detect infringing devices. They follow the steps in the manual to report the infringing devices. A crack legal team at the NAB receives notifications from said people.
I imagine it wouldn't be hard for a lot of cease and desist orders to be issued at a fairly low cost per order, if a well-organized campaign was organized. Said group of trained people proceed to run whitespace device vendors out of market with a 'chipping away' strategy of driving the whitespace device customers into returning the infringing devices to stores where they were purchased.
Remember, these devices can only be used if they are non-infringing on other, licensed uses. A small army of well-trained advocates of watching TV for free would be easy to pull together.
Here's your clue for the night: "everything deregulated" would mean no copyrights. Copyrights are a form of regulation. So how does Microsoft maintain their monopoly?
'Everything' is an expensive term to use, needless to say.
You're really loopy. Did you know that? Will you be here all week? Should I try the fish?
It's been fashionable to smack Apple around almost since the launch of the Macintosh. When Jobs gloated that the Mac was 'hacker proof' at a press conference at the product release, a lot of us made up our minds. The FSF had a rather active anti-Apple campaign coming out of Apple's look-and-feel litigation** for many years. Apple has been seen as a bad operator for years and never, ever done more than partially redeem themselves for their past practices.
(**Apple essentially tried to lock up the GUI and prevent any other software from using a graphical interface. They ran most competitors out of the market, clearing the way for Microsoft to eventually be the only GUI vendor on the PC.)
Apple has never allowed competition on their platforms. They control the vertical. They control the horizontal.
When you have a fully featured browser already in the phone,
When you have a full featured browser (I.E.) already in windows.....
where was IBM when Apple needed faster & low power portable notebook chips?
They were out making money. Where was Apple? Oh, that's right. They were busy licensing their logo and trademarks to go under the bottle cap on Pepsi products.
Not likely. The 6502 is a particularly brain-dead architecture.
Your mouse is more likely to have a PIC or something, anything, newer than a 6502.
Match known good patterns and quarantine everything else.
That's fine in a business environment where you have a floor of users all running an Office Suite of programs.
In any other setting it stifles innovation. Which is fine, if you work for a big company operated by stuffed suits.
White lists are an excellent opportunity for the people and organizations not afflicted with an IT staff who impose them.
But, then, 'IT' is just the new word for file clerk. Keep those files all neat and in order, clerks.
If he had used Lotus and WordPerfect he would still be able to open them in Excel and Word.
Now, if he'd used XyWrite maybe there would be more difficulty.
To draw all the girls, I use In*A*Vision on Windows 1.03. There is a runtime version of Windows 1.03 in the install diskettes for Micrografx In*A*Vision, which I have a complete install set of, manuals and diskettes.
(In*A*Vision is the predecessor of Micrografx Designer, and the first vector-based drawing program for Windows- it runs great on an IBM XT with 640k)
My concern is how the components depicted on the schematic are going to be made out of rocks and nuts and berries, even if the schematic is readable.
There is a thick complex web of technologies needed to replicate said drive.
And I say this as somebody who has the complete Technical Reference information for the IBM PC. (that means I have the schematic diagram of the 10mb hard drive, and the schematic diagram of the hard disk controller, along with the source code for the BIOS extension on said controller)
Plan 9 is freely downloadable, you know...
Not just 'retraining.' Also 'loss of productivity' during the conversion period. With 2500 seats that would almost certainly work out to a lot more than $200k. And with portions of it unmeasurable, it's a dangerous step to take, when a mere $200k annual buries the cost safely in the IT budget.
There are a number of nice adaptations of Ghostscript out there that let you make decent PDFs of any document at all in Windows. It simply substitutes as a psuedo-printer and outputs to a PDF. So you can 'print to PDF' from any Windows app that has a print function. The one I like is PdfCreator and yes, it's a free download. A nice integrated Windows .exe installer in fact. There are also commercial wrap-ups of it for people uncomfortable with not paying for their software. But heck, there are people hawking OpenOffice on eBay under different names too.
I hate the thought that you're using OOo just because you can make PDFs with it.
I didn't think any of you WordPerfect folks were still around.
I was a Microsoft Word user going back to the DOS versions. In fact, I used Word as my editor for some huge Assembly Language programs by using it in plain text mode exclusively.
The old story about the popularity of WordPerfect was that they did a tremendous job of evangelizing. The menu structure of WordPerfect was so arcane and complex (and with no visible menu at all until version 5.0) that every office had a 'WordPerfect god' who others could ask. "Yes, you hit alt-control-left_shift-right-flipperbutton-f3 to indent right justified text in footnotes." Said 'god' (actually 'goddess'- often a fat secretary who was unpopular in all other respects) was the expert and a loud champion of WordPerfect.
If you want the kind of control and power that you describe, you wanted to be running FrameMaker on a Sun box. I mean, please. Wordperfect? Yeah. Kinda the same thing as being an AMD zealot. "Fight the man, maaan!"
There are plenty of Windows users that have an old version of Office and see no point in tossing it.
That is the paradox of Linux on the desktop.
People who struggle with OpenOffice or any of the other Free Software/Open Source applications forget how refined things are in the commercial software world. I can remember a few years back being jubilant that I finally had a Linux desktop setup all working smoothly to do reasonable WYSIWYG text and graphics editing. I even had a decent vector-based drawing package integrated in. But after awhile I realized 'hey, this is about as good as Office 4.3 was on Windows 3.11 with Micrografx Designer' (substitute Corel Draw if you prefer.)
Outlook isn't just a calendar, either.
Thanks for trying.
(I am not even a Microsoft zealot and I had that figured out)
Your rant kind of reminds me of the way Democrats froth when a pundit decloaks as a conservative by referring to the Democratic Party as the 'Democrat Party.'
Yeah, he hates Macs. How mean of him.