Troll????? It's a true story damnit! It was at the 1992 Media Lab conference, Intelligent Agents. Pattie Maes presented, and Kay, and I think Seymore Pappert, and a bunch of other Media Lab people. I was working at a media group within DEC at the time and so we essentially got free passes to anything like that at the Lab.
At an MIT Media Lab thing back in 1992, I heard Kay say "Stuff that's gonna happen should be part of any prediction of the future." I quote that all the time.
Sorry, but that is not true. Read the patent law: according to 35 U.S.C. 271. (A), anybody who "makes" or "uses" that which is patented is an infringer. Very narrow exception is made by case law when the use is solely for the purpose of understanding the patent.
According to the ChatCord website, they're patenting the idea. Once that happens, home-made ChatCords will be in violation of the company's intellectual property rights.
Several years ago I started trying to convince friends that it'd be really cool to have something (vaguely) like Post-It notes, except with clock/timers on them and some degree of programmability.
Lending a book to somebody? Slap a note in there with a two-week timer. Sure your friend can just pull it out, but if they're really a friend it serves as a nice reminder.
Got a lot of plants? Put sticky notes on them indicating when the next watering is due.
That JiffyLube sticker on your car window would then be able to make a little "beep" "beep" (or "blink blink") when it's time for your next oil change.
Your credit card can turn red when it's soon to expire.
Parking meters can print you a receipt that indicates when you're fare expires.
LynxOS is older than Linux. Development on LynxOS began in Dallas, TX in early 1986. The system was built for the 68000 architecture originally, targetting a custom-built 68010 VME bus CPU. The software was compiled with the C compiler sold by Megamax for the Macintosh. LynxOS was ported to the IA86 for the 386 in 1988-1989.
The LynxOS ABI compatibility history goes back to about 1989 also, when SVR3 compatibility was added to the system.
No UNIX or (of course) Linux code was used in the development of the OS.
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The intro says, "a quarter billion miles away". Maybe to you "away" means "distance travelled" and not "distance as the crow flies", but it doesn't to me.
I've got a six-year-old kid who's more aware of solar system distances than that. Doesn't anybody remember just a few months ago the hoopla over the fact that Mars was less than 40 million miles away? In other words, Earth is not even 1/4 billion miles from Mars; how could anybody think that a spacecraft on the way to Mars was that far away?
Unfortunate that the test system wasn't newer
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It would be interesting to see the degree to which UnixWare copes with recent hardware: HyperThreading P4's, nForce2 chipsets, IEEE 1394, SATA RAID, etc etc etc.
Oh wait; yes it does, but it seems to prefer fairly broad gestures. Also it's ugly because it can't defeat the ordinary text selection behavior of the browser.
IBM has tens of thousands of patents. Suing IBM over patent infringement is almost 100% guaranteed to be a terribly bad idea, because IBM will just turn around and recite the litany of IBM patents SCO is infringing.
Stupid stupid stupid.
NO NO NO. Note that the patent SPECIFICALLY concerns making a request on a DIFFERENT client from the one targetted by the query. It's patenting the application that supports you calling up your cable company and ordering a movie.
Read the patents, for god's sake. The claim of the article submitter, that NCR has "patented the Internet", is totally baseless. They've patented a bunch of things, but they're quite specific and most certainly do not cover all internet technologies or applications -- not even close.
I shudder to think that there are many people who get their news solely from the (often wildly innacurate) Slashdot synopses of actual reportage elsewhere
I'm holding in my hand a boxed set called "Archives of Studio Ghibli", published by Anime Cartoon International. It's got 6 DVD's, each with two films. It doesn not include the newest film, or Castle Cagliostro (which is separately available). The DVDs have Japanese menus, and offer English or Chinese subtitles with the Japanese soundtracks.
The VMWare machine would have to be Palladium enabled; it's virtual BIOS would have to do all the same things. That would probably be difficult only in so far as it'd be hard to keep the chipset-level secrets.
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Troll. Sheesh.
At an MIT Media Lab thing back in 1992, I heard Kay say "Stuff that's gonna happen should be part of any prediction of the future." I quote that all the time.
Sorry, but that is not true. Read the patent law: according to 35 U.S.C. 271. (A), anybody who "makes" or "uses" that which is patented is an infringer. Very narrow exception is made by case law when the use is solely for the purpose of understanding the patent.
According to the ChatCord website, they're patenting the idea. Once that happens, home-made ChatCords will be in violation of the company's intellectual property rights.
Several years ago I started trying to convince friends that it'd be really cool to have something (vaguely) like Post-It notes, except with clock/timers on them and some degree of programmability. Lending a book to somebody? Slap a note in there with a two-week timer. Sure your friend can just pull it out, but if they're really a friend it serves as a nice reminder. Got a lot of plants? Put sticky notes on them indicating when the next watering is due. That JiffyLube sticker on your car window would then be able to make a little "beep" "beep" (or "blink blink") when it's time for your next oil change. Your credit card can turn red when it's soon to expire. Parking meters can print you a receipt that indicates when you're fare expires.
LynxOS is older than Linux. Development on LynxOS began in Dallas, TX in early 1986. The system was built for the 68000 architecture originally, targetting a custom-built 68010 VME bus CPU. The software was compiled with the C compiler sold by Megamax for the Macintosh. LynxOS was ported to the IA86 for the 386 in 1988-1989. The LynxOS ABI compatibility history goes back to about 1989 also, when SVR3 compatibility was added to the system. No UNIX or (of course) Linux code was used in the development of the OS.
They'll never do it.
Why should a Mac-using taxpayer be happy about this?
IBM's internal email, expense reporting, project planning, etc. is already (supposed to be) Notes-based.
The intro says, "a quarter billion miles away". Maybe to you "away" means "distance travelled" and not "distance as the crow flies", but it doesn't to me.
I've got a six-year-old kid who's more aware of solar system distances than that. Doesn't anybody remember just a few months ago the hoopla over the fact that Mars was less than 40 million miles away? In other words, Earth is not even 1/4 billion miles from Mars; how could anybody think that a spacecraft on the way to Mars was that far away?
It would be interesting to see the degree to which UnixWare copes with recent hardware: HyperThreading P4's, nForce2 chipsets, IEEE 1394, SATA RAID, etc etc etc.
Oh wait; yes it does, but it seems to prefer fairly broad gestures. Also it's ugly because it can't defeat the ordinary text selection behavior of the browser.
If that site is supposed to be a demo, it does not serve the purpose well; it doesn't work at all in Mozilla (1.5).
The 1,3 version seems to fix all the ebay crash problems.
IBM has tens of thousands of patents. Suing IBM over patent infringement is almost 100% guaranteed to be a terribly bad idea, because IBM will just turn around and recite the litany of IBM patents SCO is infringing. Stupid stupid stupid.
Why write a new one when LynxOS already exists?
NO NO NO. Note that the patent SPECIFICALLY concerns making a request on a DIFFERENT client from the one targetted by the query. It's patenting the application that supports you calling up your cable company and ordering a movie.
Read the patents, for god's sake. The claim of the article submitter, that NCR has "patented the Internet", is totally baseless. They've patented a bunch of things, but they're quite specific and most certainly do not cover all internet technologies or applications -- not even close. I shudder to think that there are many people who get their news solely from the (often wildly innacurate) Slashdot synopses of actual reportage elsewhere
Right. Clear Channel is going to record the concerts and sell the CD's and pay nothing whatsoever to the publishers. Not.
Cool.
I'm holding in my hand a boxed set called "Archives of Studio Ghibli", published by Anime Cartoon International. It's got 6 DVD's, each with two films. It doesn not include the newest film, or Castle Cagliostro (which is separately available). The DVDs have Japanese menus, and offer English or Chinese subtitles with the Japanese soundtracks.
I thought it couldn't be baryonic matter under most good-candidate expansion theories.
There was no "permissions bug" on Unix. It worked just fine for my non-root user ID.