3.) The 802.11 standard also includes the 802.11 Infrared (IR) Physical Layer. 802.11 IR defines 1Mbps and 2Mbps operation by bouncing light off ceilings and walls to provide connectivity within a room or small office. This infrared version of the standard has been available since the initial release of the 802.11 standard in 1997.
If you explore the link above from the book "Wireless Computing" By Ira Brodsky Published by John Wiley and Sons, 1997. This book goes in a lot of detail about many IP over optical solutions available at that time.
Windows screws up all the time, people get stuck and can't get there Internet working, or worse yet, a paid for copy of Word locks you out for a license error. Or even the whole OS disables itself!
What resources and recourse do you have? Zero, zilch, squat! Ever call MS tech support. It's is my definition of HELL.
Why do you think these over charging Geek Squad guys are doing so well!
And so this clueless woman, would have been equally clueless in Windows too! Maybe she is just to clueless to even take the online class in the first place.
Maybe she should have gone to the Library and finished her class if it was so important. Or some Internet cafe.
Or the first peace treaty over E-mail via Blackberry.
There could be all kinds of interesting firsts. I just love the fact that we have a president that actually has used the Internet first hand!!!
A president that can Google something for himself before making a decision.
Best of all he knows it's more then just a series of Tubes!
When I was a young hacker we actually got Regan on the phone while he was President. If only I actully would have had something to say. Instead we were just a bunch of scared kids getting a thrill.
I am just waiting till some one get's Obama's E-mail addresses.
For some young hacker this could either end up with a prison sentence or a cabinet position.
And just think presidential spam, soon he will have his fill of cheap Viagra adds. Then maybe we will see these spammers get there just dues.
20 years ago when I was at Stanford they were experimenting with MRI Microscopy. They were able to image 1/10 mm resolution of the inside of a common snail. Just using miniature coils.
My group was using the same machine to map blood flow volume and direction using MRI.
The article doesn't explain what they are doing in much detail. Even the little video is vague.
This advancement was enabled by a technique called magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM), which relies on detecting ultrasmall magnetic forces.
Those were glorious times. Where any sound was a giant leap up from beep. And MP3 was beyond imagination. It was just nice to catch up to the C64's sound quality.
I was 19 or 20 when this happened, I really didn't have a clue. Now I would just have called his bluff.
Just scraping the $2000 together to get custom R2R ladders resistor modules made to produce the units took months. On the $28K per year I was making while at Stanford University as a Life Science Research Assistant things were tight.
Remember I made these things to try to get more money, there wasn't any extra for lawyers.
Even the first prototypes were made by soldering 18 loose resistors in to a DB25 connector, burning our finger the whole time. We made a few hundred this way, I even made several aluminum jigs to hold the resistors while we soldered them together.
I really needed the $10K to make professional packaging to get it in to Fry's electronics. We knew the founders of Fry's but just couldn't afford real packaging.
This package was made from some Ace Hardware gutter lining plastic that was heat sealed using a home made heat sealer I made from some toaster parts, wood and fiberglass!
My total cost per unit was $5 and we sold for $30.
I mean before I was even really speaking I was programming. Before my native language really.
I learned how to read from the Motorola data guides as I struggled to computerize my train set. I started doing electronics at 3 basic stuff mostly. At 5 I had build a simple computer with around 400 relays, mostly pulled off PCB's my dad salvaged from the trash at his job. I brought a home made analog synth to kindergarden for show and tell made from transistor pulled out of old TV's and cloths pins for the keyboard. But I could hardly speak.
But the time I was 7 I had wire wrapped my first 6800 CPU system and was programming it in Assembly language. This was 1974.
This is true to some extent, but that's what the research is for, to get past the idea stage to a real invention. To rule out the ones others are working on. I also tend to make all my own tools, so I get there way before anyone else even realizes there will be problems and needs for these things in the future.
There are also any instances where this is not the case. I still have things from 10 and 20 years ago, that I know would sell today, but no one has ever thought if it yet. Or at least I can't find any with Google searches or patent searches.
Jared Diamond is correct, but I have seen first hand were inferior product that cost more were selected because they had more expensive offices and wore suit's. Look at IBM as a prime example of that.
I have repeatedly seen "rich kids" that grew up at country clubs and play golf be able to raise money with just a few phone calls, and no plan, prototypes or anything, because of who there dad was. While I would work myself to death for a year and never be able to do the same as his few hours of phone calls.
This is how I raise my first 1.2M was getting a rich kid as a partner to make a few calls. "Oh it's XYZ's kid, give him the money", kind of attitude.
Problem is the rich kid and his buddies then went on the steal most of the money after we went public and in the process killed the technology.
> Does your model allow for this jump in understanding?
My numbers to take in to account exponential growth. It's that improvement in understanding that create the Moore's law effect of explosive growth.
I don't see any reason why or how it can speed up any faster then it already is. If anything wars and social political upheaval will slow things down.
If you've noticed the development of CPU's had slowed dramatically since 2001. We hit 3.8 Ghz and just stopped cold. the 4 Ghz Pentiums never came even though overclockers reached 6 Ghz using the 3.4 Ghz CPU's almost 6 years ago!
Now they have changed direction to parallel cores, but we really haven't see the kind of Moore's law doubling we would have expected to see.
I am sure, if I had higher social IQ and more of a people person, I would have done better.
Some of the best business men are dumb as bricks but can charm the pants of people.
I actually think it helps because they would never think to roll up there sleeves and work on the technical side. So they just subdelegate that whole side of things so they aren't distracted with technical details.
I know my spelling / grammar aren't up to many peoples standards, but I had other people clean things up.
I'm sorry but many really good engineers can't write.
Part of my ability to invent is my brain automatically sees concepts, and I have a near photographic memory for code and schematics.
But I can not see the language.
Literally I can not see most spelling or grammar problem unless they are really glaring. Sort of a dyslexia going on there, I don't think I will ever be able to overcome it. I can read a sentence that has words swapped and missing and all kinds errors, but I see it as it should have been. If I read it out loud the errors are not there, because I can not read what's written but what was intended.
Maybe because I was programming and using a keyboard before I learned how to read and write english.
I mean, you don't know who is seeing your files.
Do you trust every gov employee who has access to your data not to pass a few important bits of information to some unscrupulous people?
It looks like some Credit card number is grayed out.
You'd never be able to trace it back to it's source.
Also is it possible to use the freedom of Information act to see other people files?
I can imagine what a violation of my privacy that would be.
It's interesting the IP address doesn't have a time/data stamp. So for Dynamic IP's it's not going to be that useful in tracing down to an exact street address where you were at the time.
All they would need in an Aluminum rail and magnets on the car. Using Magnetic induction and hysteresis they could push the car up and down and just use mechanical breaks once the car is stopped to hold it in place.
His perception that the brain is a computer is just wrong. It's a pattern matching engine, and it's main ability is fast memory look ups.
This 20 year number for creation of conscience machines is far off the mark. It was pushed by Ray Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines".
That book fails to take into account the memory bottleneck.
Here is my reasoning.
Everyone knows Moore's law, doubling every 18 Months. This is 66% Per year. But did you know memory performance in increasing only 11% per year.
In addition the capacity is also increasing, causing it to take longer and longer to scan every byte stored in a computers RAM memory then before. So even if you can hold more it's not proportionally faster to search it.
Now with the Brain, It only runs at 100 Hz, and holds 10^12 Neurons allowing 10^14 logic decisions per second. CPU's are at 3 * 10^9 so in about 18 Years we will be there in logic operations.
But how about memory? We don't even know what the brain holds, but at minimum it 1 bit per neuron 10 GBytes, If it 1 bit per dendrite that's 10,000 Bits per neuron giving 100 T Bytes. I suspect the real number is far greater because data I believe is stored in the interconnect patterns. Lets assume the best case, PC's are limited to 4 gig bytes already, we will be at 10GB in no time all, 7 years. To Reach the 100 TB That's about 20 years out. With Moore laws 66% a year increase.
Now how about memory speed? The brain can access all 10GB to 100TB 100 times per second. Giving us a memory throughput from 1 TB / Sec to 10 PetaBytes per second.
We have 833 Mhz FSB. This increase only 11% this takes about 7 years to double. So to go from 8.33 x 10^8 Byte per sec to the low number of 10^10 would take 25 Years or so and the High 10^13 would take about 100 years to reach this point. But I think our brains hold more then a 100PetaBytes, this will take over 200 years for computers to reach that point with memory performance. So at least Humans are safe for the time being.
I partly agree.
Most ideas are considered stupid by most people.
Even more ideas that are good, were already thought of and may even be on the market already.
But still there are the few really ground breaking ones.
If I had a dime for every one of my ideas stolen I'd be rich.
Here is where I disagree, execution is a matter of resources.
I had the very first audio every on most computer platforms. From digital audio on the Apple II, Lisa and Mac, C64, IBM PC and XT and even the Tandy Model 2 and 3. I had the first PC digital audio products on the market the Sound Byte, then someone literally took my name trade marked and and sent me a cease and desists on the name! So I renamed it Audio byte. http://www.dnull.com/zebraresearch
Then another company (first byte) reverse engineered my Digital Audio on the PC speaker and patented it, and tried to sue a number of game companies who also reverse engineered my code and used it. This was Intel Assembly language, almost as easy to reverse as JAVA. So many of these paid me and used my Prior Art to toss out the patent suits.
But the kicker was after 3 years and selling some 5000 units at $30 each, Creative Labs came out with an inferior product for $115 and sold 47,000 units in there first month. Past us by like we were standing still. I found out that the same VC we pitch financed them while not financing me. And there plan used us as an example of market feasibility!
So much for execution. It's all a matter of resources. If you don't start off with enough money, and try to boot strap from sales like I was doing, you going to get killed if it's a really important product.
I have repeatedly had this happen with different ideas. Many I did execute on and for some was even selling and making a profit.
* Wearable computers with VR goggles 1984
* Hand held Oscilloscope 1984
* VOIP (internet phone calls) in 1987
* Streaming internet video 1988.
* 13000 streaming video viewers (VQ) with 384 video servers on SUN Microsystems network 1990
* The CDN where I built the first on for video in 1994. IN 1997 we had over 1M simultaneous views at 56K. One of the largest consumers of Bandwidth on the Internet, and no one knew who we were, because it was adult. I can directly trace back to specific individuals where Genutity's Hopscotch network and Digital Islands CDN directly copied what I was doing! Peer1 that host Youtube is now using one of my methods that I pioneered for CDN.
* load balancing of internet servers 1995
* Caching web servers 1996
* TCP/IP Selective Acknowledgment implemented in my ECIP. 1996 http://www.ecip.org/
* Streaming H.263/MPEG4 video and MP3 1996/1997
* the first Stand alone IP Camera 1996
* Fanless servers to improve reliably in our CoLo's 1997 (used heat pipes on CPU, HD and PS)
* The first CCTV DVR 1997 done in Partnership with Korean company. Also included the first multichannel(16 input) video capture board.
My new stuff I am keeping under wraps now till I can get better resources lined up.
I am not listing these to brag, but to show how much effort I have put in over the past 20 years, with great technical success but only partial business success.
It's always boiled down to one thing, lack marketing budget. Lack of money to manufacture. Lack of the "right connections" to raise money or make large sales because I wasn't part of the good old boys/rich kids club. There is a class system in this country whether you believe it or not.
Almost every one of these ideas I filed or tried to file a patent on, then ran out of money to comp
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1.) There is TCP/IP over Infrared (IrDA) and comes standard on Windows and works also in Linux.
http://web.pdx.edu/~mendyke/ip7780.html
2.) there are many laser link systems out there.
I even worked on one.
http://www.dnull.com/zebraresearch/company-mail.html
3.) The 802.11 standard also includes the 802.11 Infrared (IR) Physical Layer. 802.11 IR defines 1Mbps and 2Mbps operation by bouncing light off ceilings and walls to provide connectivity within a room or small office. This infrared version of the standard has been available since the initial release of the 802.11 standard in 1997.
4.) Spectrix Corporation of Mundelein, Illinois had a proprietary solution for this. I think they are out of business now.
http://books.google.com/books?id=QZrrXcs1R9gC&pg=RA1-PA207&lpg=RA1-PA207&dq=%22Spectrix+Corporation+%22&source=bl&ots=kMxMofcTd7&sig=qd4QvwoREWQloJKwnpmp63j-Z-I&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result
If you explore the link above from the book "Wireless Computing" By Ira Brodsky Published by John Wiley and Sons, 1997. This book goes in a lot of detail about many IP over optical solutions available at that time.
Windows screws up all the time, people get stuck and can't get there Internet working, or worse yet, a paid for copy of Word locks you out for a license error. Or even the whole OS disables itself!
What resources and recourse do you have?
Zero, zilch, squat!
Ever call MS tech support.
It's is my definition of HELL.
Why do you think these over charging Geek Squad guys are doing so well!
And so this clueless woman, would have been equally clueless in Windows too! Maybe she is just to clueless to even take the online class in the first place.
Maybe she should have gone to the Library and finished her class if it was so important. Or some Internet cafe.
Oh man, I think that's funny, let me ask some of my darker skinned brethren just to be sure.
I don't think this parent should be modded down though.
For god sakes everyone, it's not like everyone had to stop telling Irish jokes after JFK took office.
It's the spirit of the Joke that's important. I don't think this one was mean spirited. It is making fun of "political correctness" more then race.
Or the first peace treaty over E-mail via Blackberry.
There could be all kinds of interesting firsts. I just love the fact that we have a president that actually has used the Internet first hand!!!
A president that can Google something for himself before making a decision.
Best of all he knows it's more then just a series of Tubes!
When I was a young hacker we actually got Regan on the phone while he was President. If only I actully would have had something to say. Instead we were just a bunch of scared kids getting a thrill.
I am just waiting till some one get's Obama's E-mail addresses.
For some young hacker this could either end up with a prison sentence or a cabinet position.
And just think presidential spam, soon he will have his fill of cheap Viagra adds. Then maybe we will see these spammers get there just dues.
I wonder if Obama@whitehouse.gov will work?
20 years ago when I was at Stanford they were experimenting with MRI Microscopy.
They were able to image 1/10 mm resolution of the inside of a common snail. Just using miniature coils.
My group was using the same machine to map blood flow volume and direction using MRI.
The article doesn't explain what they are doing in much detail. Even the little video is vague.
This advancement was enabled by a technique called magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM), which relies on detecting ultrasmall magnetic forces.
Those were glorious times.
Where any sound was a giant leap up from beep.
And MP3 was beyond imagination.
It was just nice to catch up to the C64's sound quality.
Did you buy and Audio Byte, or did you just see one?
A few companies later came up with similar clones, like Disney, but they had a build in amp and speaker. There were a few others I can't remember now.
We were mostly selling at the computer shows in the SF/Bay area and some mail order.
The Audio Byte was supported by Chuck Yeager's Air Combat from Electronic Arts, and some Sega and Activision games for the PC.
I was 19 or 20 when this happened, I really didn't have a clue. Now I would just have called his bluff.
Just scraping the $2000 together to get custom R2R ladders resistor modules made to produce the units took months. On the $28K per year I was making while at Stanford University as a Life Science Research Assistant things were tight.
Remember I made these things to try to get more money, there wasn't any extra for lawyers.
Even the first prototypes were made by soldering 18 loose resistors in to a DB25 connector, burning our finger the whole time. We made a few hundred this way, I even made several aluminum jigs to hold the resistors while we soldered them together.
This is the product we put out!
http://www.dnull.com/zebraresearch/images/audiobyte-pack1m.jpg
I really needed the $10K to make professional packaging to get it in to Fry's electronics. We knew the founders of Fry's but just couldn't afford real packaging.
This package was made from some Ace Hardware gutter lining plastic that was heat sealed using a home made heat sealer I made from some toaster parts, wood and fiberglass!
My total cost per unit was $5 and we sold for $30.
I mean before I was even really speaking I was programming. Before my native language really.
I learned how to read from the Motorola data guides as I struggled to computerize my train set. I started doing electronics at 3 basic stuff mostly. At 5 I had build a simple computer with around 400 relays, mostly pulled off PCB's my dad salvaged from the trash at his job. I brought a home made analog synth to kindergarden for show and tell made from transistor pulled out of old TV's and cloths pins for the keyboard. But I could hardly speak.
But the time I was 7 I had wire wrapped my first 6800 CPU system and was programming it in Assembly language. This was 1974.
This is true to some extent, but that's what the research is for, to get past the idea stage to a real invention. To rule out the ones others are working on. I also tend to make all my own tools, so I get there way before anyone else even realizes there will be problems and needs for these things in the future.
There are also any instances where this is not the case. I still have things from 10 and 20 years ago, that I know would sell today, but no one has ever thought if it yet. Or at least I can't find any with Google searches or patent searches.
Jared Diamond is correct, but I have seen first hand were inferior product that cost more were selected because they had more expensive offices and wore suit's. Look at IBM as a prime example of that.
I have repeatedly seen "rich kids" that grew up at country clubs and play golf be able to raise money with just a few phone calls, and no plan, prototypes or anything, because of who there dad was. While I would work myself to death for a year and never be able to do the same as his few hours of phone calls.
This is how I raise my first 1.2M was getting a rich kid as a partner to make a few calls. "Oh it's XYZ's kid, give him the money", kind of attitude.
Problem is the rich kid and his buddies then went on the steal most of the money after we went public and in the process killed the technology.
> Does your model allow for this jump in understanding?
My numbers to take in to account exponential growth. It's that improvement in understanding that create the Moore's law effect of explosive growth.
I don't see any reason why or how it can speed up any faster then it already is. If anything wars and social political upheaval will slow things down.
If you've noticed the development of CPU's had slowed dramatically since 2001. We hit 3.8 Ghz and just stopped cold. the 4 Ghz Pentiums never came even though overclockers reached 6 Ghz using the 3.4 Ghz CPU's almost 6 years ago!
Now they have changed direction to parallel cores, but we really haven't see the kind of Moore's law doubling we would have expected to see.
Thanks for that.
> actually arise from deficient soft-skills
I am sure, if I had higher social IQ and more of a people person, I would have done better.
Some of the best business men are dumb as bricks but can charm the pants of people.
I actually think it helps because they would never think to roll up there sleeves and work on the technical side. So they just subdelegate that whole side of things so they aren't distracted with technical details.
I know my spelling / grammar aren't up to many peoples standards, but I had other people clean things up.
I'm sorry but many really good engineers can't write.
Part of my ability to invent is my brain automatically sees concepts, and I have a near photographic memory for code and schematics.
But I can not see the language.
Literally I can not see most spelling or grammar problem unless they are really glaring. Sort of a dyslexia going on there, I don't think I will ever be able to overcome it. I can read a sentence that has words swapped and missing and all kinds errors, but I see it as it should have been. If I read it out loud the errors are not there, because I can not read what's written but what was intended.
Maybe because I was programming and using a keyboard before I learned how to read and write english.
I mean, you don't know who is seeing your files.
Do you trust every gov employee who has access to your data not to pass a few important bits of information to some unscrupulous people?
It looks like some Credit card number is grayed out.
You'd never be able to trace it back to it's source.
Also is it possible to use the freedom of Information act to see other people files?
I can imagine what a violation of my privacy that would be.
It's interesting the IP address doesn't have a time/data stamp. So for Dynamic IP's it's not going to be that useful in tracing down to an exact street address where you were at the time.
All they would need in an Aluminum rail and magnets on the car. Using Magnetic induction and hysteresis they could push the car up and down and just use mechanical breaks once the car is stopped to hold it in place.
I have seen this stupid decision done before.
To accountants it's great on paper, web site's cheaper, and great traffic.
But they don't take into account that it's the print magazine that's been driving there traffic.
As soon as they stop the printed magazine people will slowly stop going to there site and they will slowly run out of cash.
His perception that the brain is a computer is just wrong. It's a pattern matching engine, and it's main ability is fast memory look ups.
This 20 year number for creation of conscience machines is far off the mark. It was pushed by Ray Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines".
That book fails to take into account the memory bottleneck.
Here is my reasoning.
Everyone knows Moore's law, doubling every 18 Months. This is 66% Per year. But did you know memory performance in increasing only 11% per year.
In addition the capacity is also increasing, causing it to take longer and longer to scan every byte stored in a computers RAM memory then before. So even if you can hold more it's not proportionally faster to search it.
Now with the Brain, It only runs at 100 Hz, and holds 10^12 Neurons allowing 10^14 logic decisions per second. CPU's are at 3 * 10^9 so in about 18 Years we will be there in logic operations.
But how about memory? We don't even know what the brain holds, but at minimum it 1 bit per neuron 10 GBytes, If it 1 bit per dendrite that's 10,000 Bits per neuron giving 100 T Bytes. I suspect the real number is far greater because data I believe is stored in the interconnect patterns. Lets assume the best case, PC's are limited to 4 gig bytes already, we will be at 10GB in no time all, 7 years. To Reach the 100 TB That's about 20 years out. With Moore laws 66% a year increase.
Now how about memory speed? The brain can access all 10GB to 100TB 100 times per second. Giving us a memory throughput from 1 TB / Sec to 10 PetaBytes per second.
We have 833 Mhz FSB. This increase only 11% this takes about 7 years to double. So to go from 8.33 x 10^8 Byte per sec to the low number of 10^10 would take 25 Years or so and the High 10^13 would take about 100 years to reach this point.
But I think our brains hold more then a 100PetaBytes, this will take over 200 years for computers to reach that point with memory performance. So at least Humans are safe for the time being.
Computers are just really fast idiots for now.
I partly agree.
Most ideas are considered stupid by most people.
Even more ideas that are good, were already thought of and may even be on the market already.
But still there are the few really ground breaking ones.
If I had a dime for every one of my ideas stolen I'd be rich.
Here is where I disagree, execution is a matter of resources.
I had the very first audio every on most computer platforms. From digital audio on the Apple II, Lisa and Mac, C64, IBM PC and XT and even the Tandy Model 2 and 3.
I had the first PC digital audio products on the market the Sound Byte, then someone literally took my name trade marked and and sent me a cease and desists on the name! So I renamed it Audio byte. http://www.dnull.com/zebraresearch
Then another company (first byte) reverse engineered my Digital Audio on the PC speaker and patented it, and tried to sue a number of game companies who also reverse engineered my code and used it. This was Intel Assembly language, almost as easy to reverse as JAVA. So many of these paid me and used my Prior Art to toss out the patent suits.
But the kicker was after 3 years and selling some 5000 units at $30 each, Creative Labs came out with an inferior product for $115 and sold 47,000 units in there first month. Past us by like we were standing still. I found out that the same VC we pitch financed them while not financing me. And there plan used us as an example of market feasibility!
So much for execution. It's all a matter of resources. If you don't start off with enough money, and try to boot strap from sales like I was doing, you going to get killed if it's a really important product.
I have repeatedly had this happen with different ideas. Many I did execute on and for some was even selling and making a profit.
* Wearable computers with VR goggles 1984
* Hand held Oscilloscope 1984
* VOIP (internet phone calls) in 1987
* Streaming internet video 1988.
* 13000 streaming video viewers (VQ) with 384 video servers on SUN Microsystems network 1990
* Online Banking for Wells Fargo, 1992
* Livecam (JPEG, GIF, and MPEG1 & 2, modified H.261) 1994
* The CDN where I built the first on for video in 1994. IN 1997 we had over 1M simultaneous views at 56K. One of the largest consumers of Bandwidth on the Internet, and no one knew who we were, because it was adult.
I can directly trace back to specific individuals where Genutity's Hopscotch network and Digital Islands CDN directly copied what I was doing!
Peer1 that host Youtube is now using one of my methods that I pioneered for CDN.
* load balancing of internet servers 1995
* Caching web servers 1996
* TCP/IP Selective Acknowledgment implemented in my ECIP. 1996 http://www.ecip.org/
* Streaming H.263/MPEG4 video and MP3 1996/1997
* the first Stand alone IP Camera 1996
* Fanless servers to improve reliably in our CoLo's 1997 (used heat pipes on CPU, HD and PS)
* The first CCTV DVR 1997 done in Partnership with Korean company. Also included the first multichannel(16 input) video capture board.
* Cell processors & Blade servers http://www.enumera.com/
1999
* silent computers * computer cooling in 2002
My new stuff I am keeping under wraps now till I can get better resources lined up.
I am not listing these to brag, but to show how much effort I have put in over the past 20 years, with great technical success but only partial business success.
It's always boiled down to one thing, lack marketing budget. Lack of money to manufacture. Lack of the "right connections" to raise money or make large sales because I wasn't part of the good old boys/rich kids club. There is a class system in this country whether you believe it or not.
Almost every one of these ideas I filed or tried to file a patent on, then ran out of money to comp
And how many bugs does MS office have?
I think it's relative. OO works well enough for most. So does word. Both a full of bugs.
But OO is open source. If you don't like it, pick up a copy of the K&R book and and Linux CD and go fix the damn thing.
It's a whole lot more effective then spending time on the phone with Microsoft tech support.
Maybe faster too.
>somebody has to look at it before it is added to an index.
Sure, they can just outsource it to India...
What more do you want them to add.
The rest of the stuff Microsoft has, no one cares about enough to add it.
Maybe clueless on this one.
What am I missing?
I am not that into file systems. I do video and usb drivers.
Too bad it for the mac, lets make it work under Ubuntu so it can be useful to those of us who don't want to overpay for our hardware.
Back in the BBS days it was being passed around, but this was in the days before Java, and PHP.
I wonder if I can find it in google groups somewhere.
I found this one from 2002,
Religions as programming languages , but it's not the one I am looking for.
http://groups.google.com/group/nl.humor/browse_thread/thread/ff38cd7da81c59e8?hl=en&q=%22Programming+Languages%22++Religion#c87bfd9fb1cfdf4e
Oh well I tried, it's lost in a sea of data.
I am sure it's on one of the many old MFM hard drives decomposing in my garage.
check out my http://www.churchofbsd.org/ site