Adobe did indeed invent PostScript (although it was based on work done at Xerox PARC), it was their first product.
Pagemaker and Freehand were both made by Aldus, Adobe bought Aldus in 1994. Freehand was sold to MacroMedia as Adobe already had Illustrator.
Adobe has a number of products they have developed themselves like Postscript, Type Manager, Acrobat, Illustrator, PhotoShop, InDesign, etc. They also have products they bought off others like Pagemaker and Framemaker.
For what it's worth Microsoft has a history of buying others products or licensing their code. PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage, FoxPro, Visio, etc. were all the result of MS buying other companies. SQL server was the result of MS licensing Sybase's code, IE was the result of MS licensing Spyglass Mosaic.
Oddly enough the $99 JASC PaintShop Pro is about the closest thing on the market to a Photoshop killer. Even so there are situations where I prefer photoshop.
US automakers have a lot more commonality in parts between models than they used to.
Some US brands are reasonably decent as well, Ford Trucks and Vans, some Ford passenger cars, Chevy Silverado, Dodge Caravan, Saturn, etc. are all decent for vehicles from US automakers.
I'll take a crash-worthy car with good handling over an SUV. Just because a Suburban is a big hunk of sheet metal doesn't mean it protects it's passengers in a crash any better than a well designed car. One big advantage many cars have over the SUV monsters is a greater ablity to avoid accidents entirely. As a rule cars have shorter stopping distances and aren't as likely to roll over if you have to swerve suddenly.
BTW I don't know why so many drivers hate semi-trucks. I find they are much more predictable and less likely to do something sudden and stupid than the average vehicle on the road. You just have to give them lots of space and remember they can't stop or turn quickly. Unfortunately by far the worst drivers are usually piloting either a SUV, an expensive imported sedan, or a flashy sports car.
There really isn't anything magic about CommonCriteria Certification or its older brother the NIST certification process. All it takes is money to pay the various fees and the time and effort necessary to guide whatever product you are trying to certify through the process.
Unfortunately this means open source products such as various Linux distributions, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD probably need to find someone to sponsor certification. For commercial Linux distributions like RedHat, SuSE, etc. this sponsorship is likely to come from the vendor or from a partner like IBM, or HP. For free distributions like Debian and the xBSD projects this means they would either have to collect donations or find a sponsor like Google or Yahoo.
It is possible to have opensource based projects certified under CommonCriteria and the NIST standards. Several Linux and BSD based firewalls and security appliances such as the WatchGuard Firebox have been ceritfied.
I know everyone thought this would be a bad idea a few years ago, but it couldn't be any worse than the current ICANN mess. At least there would be more representation.
The downside is ITU is extremely bureaucratic and not known for public participation. Their standards process also leaves much to be desired compared to the IETF RFC process.
That's why I said there could be a problem "in theory". On the other hand considering how overzealous some companies are about sending C&D letters to everyone in the free world it wouldn't supprise me. I mean when companies like Mattel can sue people named "Barbie" and "Barbara" for tradmark infringement something is seriously wrong.
Well I just checked the yellow pages and there are a few wholesale suppliers in the Bay Area. These are probably the cheapest places for you to get dry ice.
It does seem sort of odd that Seattle has more dry ice suppliers than the entire state of California. Probably due to the large fishing industry here.
If you are looking for dry ice in quantity in the US or Canada look under "Dry Ice" in your yellow pages. Check several places for quantities available (wholesale dealers may have a minimum) and pricing.
www.dryiceinfo.com has some information on dry ice applications and a directory of dealers.
Don't go to Afghanistan, Iraq, rural southern Phillipines, rural former Eastern-Bloc nation, rural former Soviet Republic, don't get off I-90 between Spokane and Missoula at night, or if you don't look Aryan, don't go to rural Columbia, don't hook up with Shining Path leaders in Peru.
I don't see whats wrong with I-90 between Spokane and Missoula after dark. There's nothing wrong with the Coeur D'Alene area even at night. Between Coeur D'Alene and Missoula you are more likely to run into a racoon or bobcat than a person, not really dangerous in my book.
As for "rural former Eastern-Bloc nation", I had a blast in the rural parts of the Czech Republic and Southern Poland. I've never met friendlier people nor felt safer in my life.
Local, State, and Federal governments spend huge amounts of money maintaining roads, building new ones and improving exsisting ones.
Also remember the very large sums involved in ensuring cheap gasoline. I mean would we even care what happened in the Middle East if they did not have oil?
And what about environmental damage? Air pollution, water pollution, paving open spaces, etc. all have costs.
Remember that 2 of the most powerful and feared organizations in Washington DC are special intrest groups with lots of ordinary citizen members, The NRA, and AARP.
Why are they so powerful? Well they do all of the things the big corprate lobbying groups do, make campaign contributions, endorse canidates, hire lobbyists, issue position papers, testify before congress, etc. However they have one trump card even the most powerful corprate lobby doesn't, millions of members all over the country who VOTE.
Groups like the NRA and AARP actually represent the people who have the power to determine who their elected represenatives are. That is one of the great things about this country, despite evidence to the contrary, true power is still at the ballot box.
I don't know if you are familiar with rail service in Europe but it is a good alternative to flying or driving. For example high-speed rail is considered THE way to travel between Paris and Brussels.
There are train corridors that already are quite popular such as Vancouver BC-Seattle-Portland, Boston-NYC-DC, and LA-San Diego. Many areas have corridors they would like to see higher speed, more frequent, and more reliable service. In some cases the states and cities are even willing to invest their own money (YVR-SEA-PDX Talgo service).
If I want to travel between Seattle and Portland (about 200 miles) I have 3 options: 1. Fly, 1hr to get to airport, 2hrs to clear security and check in, 1hr for flight,.5 hr to get into downtown Portland. 4.5hrs total. 2. Drive, about 4 hours, 6 or more during rush hour or if there is an accident. 3. Train,.5hr to station,.5hr to.25hr waiting for departure, 2.5hr train ride,.25-.5hr to get to destination in Portland. 3.5hr-4hr total. and trains don't require a body cavity search.
If we were willing to invest even a fraction of the total subsidies given to either the auto industry or air travel industries in passenger rail services people actually wanted to use we could probably achieve ridership rates approching Europe.
This does actually go beyond Alan Cox making a point, he really does have to worry about releasing patches giving circumvention information in the US.
Consider the following:
Assume Microsoft Palladium has shipped. Assume a major remote exploit bug/hole allowing one to bypass the "trusted computing environment" is discovered in this new OS. Assume the steps required to reproduce the bug allow one to bypass the DRM built into the OS. If you posted either an exploit or a description of the bug you could be charged with violating the anti-circumvention section of the DMCA.
Now assume someone has a "trusted computing" patch for linux that uses digital signatures for security. Remember this can also be used for DRM. Bug allowing trusted computing subsystem to be bypassed is found. Someone posts patch for this bug, by it's very nature the patch contains enough information to exploit the hole. This also would be violating the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA.
If you think perhaps this is an overly broad reading of the law and nobody would really ever be prosecuted for violating the DMCA in this way. Remember DAs who have decided a perp is evil and must be guilty of something will find something to nail you on. Usually a law with overly broad language that was aimed at an entirely different problem. Some favorites are RICO, federal wire-fraud statutes, tax evasion, anti-conspiracy statues, computer crime laws, and coming soon to a courtroom near you the DMCA.
Saddam has reconfirmed his authority in Iraq by public vote if I am not mistaken...
I'm sorry but I'd hardly call that an "election". It has about as much legitimacy as the so-called elections the USSR used to have. The only votes possible were "yes" or "no" for Saddam and all of the balots were numbered to identify those who voted "no" or failed to do their patriotic duty and vote.
Jeb Bush is considering adopting this system in Florida.
Perforce is a very nice SCM tool for large-scale projects.
They post their price list, have reasonable prices, have a free(beer)limited user version availible, and from my experience conduct themselves professionally.
Why would I want to deal with Larry and BitKeeper?
I don't have any links, but I remember this coming up on nanog about 1996 or so. Somone who worked for MFS at the time the MAE were named claimed the names MAE-EAST and MAE-WEST were intentional puns.
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Boeing Commercial may not be doing so hot but I bet their defense business will be doing quite well in the next couple of years.
Please, get your facts straight:
Adobe did indeed invent PostScript (although it was based on work done at Xerox PARC), it was their first product.
Pagemaker and Freehand were both made by Aldus, Adobe bought Aldus in 1994. Freehand was sold to MacroMedia as Adobe already had Illustrator.
Adobe has a number of products they have developed themselves like Postscript, Type Manager, Acrobat, Illustrator, PhotoShop, InDesign, etc. They also have products they bought off others like Pagemaker and Framemaker.
For what it's worth Microsoft has a history of buying others products or licensing their code. PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage, FoxPro, Visio, etc. were all the result of MS buying other companies. SQL server was the result of MS licensing Sybase's code, IE was the result of MS licensing Spyglass Mosaic.
Oddly enough the $99 JASC PaintShop Pro is about the closest thing on the market to a Photoshop killer. Even so there are situations where I prefer photoshop.
He should be thankful the FBI didn't use this new method of taking care of the "problem".
Think of it, no unpredictable juries, no courts, and no detention costs.
Remember, those who uncap their bandwidth are helping the terrorists!
US automakers have a lot more commonality in parts between models than they used to.
Some US brands are reasonably decent as well, Ford Trucks and Vans, some Ford passenger cars, Chevy Silverado, Dodge Caravan, Saturn, etc. are all decent for vehicles from US automakers.
I'll take a crash-worthy car with good handling over an SUV. Just because a Suburban is a big hunk of sheet metal doesn't mean it protects it's passengers in a crash any better than a well designed car. One big advantage many cars have over the SUV monsters is a greater ablity to avoid accidents entirely. As a rule cars have shorter stopping distances and aren't as likely to roll over if you have to swerve suddenly.
BTW I don't know why so many drivers hate semi-trucks. I find they are much more predictable and less likely to do something sudden and stupid than the average vehicle on the road. You just have to give them lots of space and remember they can't stop or turn quickly. Unfortunately by far the worst drivers are usually piloting either a SUV, an expensive imported sedan, or a flashy sports car.
There really isn't anything magic about CommonCriteria Certification or its older brother the NIST certification process. All it takes is money to pay the various fees and the time and effort necessary to guide whatever product you are trying to certify through the process.
Unfortunately this means open source products such as various Linux distributions, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD probably need to find someone to sponsor certification. For commercial Linux distributions like RedHat, SuSE, etc. this sponsorship is likely to come from the vendor or from a partner like IBM, or HP. For free distributions like Debian and the xBSD projects this means they would either have to collect donations or find a sponsor like Google or Yahoo.
It is possible to have opensource based projects certified under CommonCriteria and the NIST standards. Several Linux and BSD based firewalls and security appliances such as the WatchGuard Firebox have been ceritfied.
I know everyone thought this would be a bad idea a few years ago, but it couldn't be any worse than the current ICANN mess. At least there would be more representation.
The downside is ITU is extremely bureaucratic and not known for public participation. Their standards process also leaves much to be desired compared to the IETF RFC process.
The scary thing is I fully expect Congress to grant the administration sweeping new powers if the Republicans win the Senate.
Hopefully enough Democrats will object to filibuster most of this nonsense.
DDT
That's why I said there could be a problem "in theory". On the other hand considering how overzealous some companies are about sending C&D letters to everyone in the free world it wouldn't supprise me. I mean when companies like Mattel can sue people named "Barbie" and "Barbara" for tradmark infringement something is seriously wrong.
I don't really see the problem here. This game is coded in flash. It's not using the code from the original ROM.
On the other hand there could in theory be trademark problems with copying images from the original game.
Microsoft is famous for the way they use stock option grants to ofset their Federal income taxes.
This is one of the reasons they will never expense options until forced to by a change in the law or FSAB rules.
Just because a Congressman or Senator is from Washington does not mean they will back every brain-dead idea being pushed by Redmond.
Jay Inslee and Rick Larsen both received more money from Microsoft and they are not backing this (yet).
Well I just checked the yellow pages and there are a few wholesale suppliers in the Bay Area. These are probably the cheapest places for you to get dry ice.
It does seem sort of odd that Seattle has more dry ice suppliers than the entire state of California. Probably due to the large fishing industry here.
If you are looking for dry ice in quantity in the US or Canada look under "Dry Ice" in your yellow pages. Check several places for quantities available (wholesale dealers may have a minimum) and pricing.
www.dryiceinfo.com has some information on dry ice applications and a directory of dealers.
My favorite Apollo Domain error was
"stream is not a pad"
I know a programmer who spent a LOOONG time trying to figure out what the hell that was.
Turns out you had to use a "pad" window type to use a text window for both input and output.
Don't go to Afghanistan, Iraq, rural southern Phillipines, rural former Eastern-Bloc nation, rural former Soviet Republic, don't get off I-90 between Spokane and Missoula at night, or if you don't look Aryan, don't go to rural Columbia, don't hook up with Shining Path leaders in Peru.
I don't see whats wrong with I-90 between Spokane and Missoula after dark. There's nothing wrong with the Coeur D'Alene area even at night. Between Coeur D'Alene and Missoula you are more likely to run into a racoon or bobcat than a person, not really dangerous in my book.
As for "rural former Eastern-Bloc nation", I had a blast in the rural parts of the Czech Republic and Southern Poland. I've never met friendlier people nor felt safer in my life.
Local, State, and Federal governments spend huge amounts of money maintaining roads, building new ones and improving exsisting ones.
Also remember the very large sums involved in ensuring cheap gasoline. I mean would we even care what happened in the Middle East if they did not have oil?
And what about environmental damage? Air pollution, water pollution, paving open spaces, etc. all have costs.
Remember that 2 of the most powerful and feared organizations in Washington DC are special intrest groups with lots of ordinary citizen members, The NRA, and AARP.
Why are they so powerful? Well they do all of the things the big corprate lobbying groups do, make campaign contributions, endorse canidates, hire lobbyists, issue position papers, testify before congress, etc. However they have one trump card even the most powerful corprate lobby doesn't, millions of members all over the country who VOTE.
Groups like the NRA and AARP actually represent the people who have the power to determine who their elected represenatives are. That is one of the great things about this country, despite evidence to the contrary, true power is still at the ballot box.
I don't know if you are familiar with rail service in Europe but it is a good alternative to flying or driving. For example high-speed rail is considered THE way to travel between Paris and Brussels.
.5 hr to get into downtown Portland. 4.5hrs total. .5hr to station, .5hr to .25hr waiting for departure, 2.5hr train ride, .25-.5hr to get to destination in Portland. 3.5hr-4hr total.
There are train corridors that already are quite popular such as Vancouver BC-Seattle-Portland, Boston-NYC-DC, and LA-San Diego. Many areas have corridors they would like to see higher speed, more frequent, and more reliable service. In some cases the states and cities are even willing to invest their own money (YVR-SEA-PDX Talgo service).
If I want to travel between Seattle and Portland (about 200 miles) I have 3 options:
1. Fly, 1hr to get to airport, 2hrs to clear security and check in, 1hr for flight,
2. Drive, about 4 hours, 6 or more during rush hour or if there is an accident.
3. Train,
and trains don't require a body cavity search.
If we were willing to invest even a fraction of the total subsidies given to either the auto industry or air travel industries in passenger rail services people actually wanted to use we could probably achieve ridership rates approching Europe.
This does actually go beyond Alan Cox making a point, he really does have to worry about releasing patches giving circumvention information in the US.
Consider the following:
Assume Microsoft Palladium has shipped.
Assume a major remote exploit bug/hole allowing one to bypass the "trusted computing environment" is discovered in this new OS.
Assume the steps required to reproduce the bug allow one to bypass the DRM built into the OS.
If you posted either an exploit or a description of the bug you could be charged with violating the anti-circumvention section of the DMCA.
Now assume someone has a "trusted computing" patch for linux that uses digital signatures for security. Remember this can also be used for DRM.
Bug allowing trusted computing subsystem to be bypassed is found.
Someone posts patch for this bug, by it's very nature the patch contains enough information to exploit the hole.
This also would be violating the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA.
If you think perhaps this is an overly broad reading of the law and nobody would really ever be prosecuted for violating the DMCA in this way. Remember DAs who have decided a perp is evil and must be guilty of something will find something to nail you on. Usually a law with overly broad language that was aimed at an entirely different problem. Some favorites are RICO, federal wire-fraud statutes, tax evasion, anti-conspiracy statues, computer crime laws, and coming soon to a courtroom near you the DMCA.
Saddam has reconfirmed his authority in Iraq by public vote if I am not mistaken...
I'm sorry but I'd hardly call that an "election". It has about as much legitimacy as the so-called elections the USSR used to have. The only votes possible were "yes" or "no" for Saddam and all of the balots were numbered to identify those who voted "no" or failed to do their patriotic duty and vote.
Jeb Bush is considering adopting this system in Florida.
Perforce is a very nice SCM tool for large-scale projects.
They post their price list, have reasonable prices, have a free(beer)limited user version availible, and from my experience conduct themselves professionally.
Why would I want to deal with Larry and BitKeeper?
I don't have any links, but I remember this coming up on nanog about 1996 or so. Somone who worked for MFS at the time the MAE were named claimed the names MAE-EAST and MAE-WEST were intentional puns.
That does look a bit like a network map.