Camre? Previa? They read like a misprint! Toyota has not used a real word in naming a car since the Corona, have they? Okay, I guess Tundra is a real word.
How about Kia? They make the Sportage, Retona, Clarus, and Pregio?!?
Here's some cars that should have been introduced during the nineties:
Geo Scrotum
Geo Speculum (would compete with Ford Probe for "Car most likely to make women squeamish"
If you follow the European style 12:34:56 7/8/90 (August 7) I can affirm that I was driving a convertable from San Francisco to the Napa Valley in the middle of my honeymoon.
I'd completely forgotten about that. Thanks for bringing back a very nice memory.
I saw this news item a couple of days ago, thought about it for a while, and managed to create a satire that made it to Segfault before the real story made it to/.
If we can buy one other's toys, postcards, falafel and dim sum, we can find peace and celebrate the future hand in hand.
My extended family spent a week at DizKnee Whirled last November. I could have killed for a falafel, but I couldn't find any at EPCOT. It is nearly impossible to find a meal at EPCOT for under $10 that does not involve frozen reconstituted chicken nuggets or a hamburger. At least at Frontierland in the Tragic Kingdom you can find a big honkin' smoked turkey leg to gnaw on. But as a 90% vegetarian, I mostly went hungry.
To be fair, there are theme restaurants at EPCOT that feature authentic regional cuisines, but you need to make reservations early in the morning and prepare to shell out Big Bucks.
As to authenticity, "authentic" is the word most likely to be heard coming from the myriad loudspeakers at EPCOT, the word most likely to be read in the brochures. The idea that EPCOT is in any way, shape, or form authentic is laughable at best, and Orwellian at its heart.
There was a story in yesterday's Boston Globe about The Learning Company. It seems that the top two officer's have abruptly resigned after losing $100M+ for the most recent reporting period.
The story reports that
Mattel officials issued an earnings warning in October. At the time, Bozarth said Mattel headquarters staff had been kept in the dark about problems at Learning Co. until the third quarter was nearly over. Bozarth said Mattel would launch ''a complete organizational review'' to find out how this could have happened.
I used almost exactly the same architecture to cache user data and stock / mutual fund live feeds when helping to implement the 800-number quote and trading service for a Very Big Mutual Fund Company (let's call them "Faithfulness"). There was no web server, only the telephone interface (this was in 1993).
I didn't think I was doing anything novel. I've got to think about it more; there is probably something nifty Yahoo is doing that we did not do. But we did do the following:
Retrieve the user's "template" when they logged in, including their stock and mutual fund holdings, account numbers, etc. This data went into pre-allocated shared memory.
Regularly poll a quotes system for commonly retrieved quotes, putting data into shared memory.
Receive mutual fund price updates as they happened, putting data into shared memory.
Some data would be returned livesuch as buy / sell transaction acknowledgements, or uncommon stock quotes. The telephone UI would send a request over a message Q to a request manager, which would assign a shared memory slot with a semaphore that the client could sit on until the shared memory was filled in by a server process.
Am I missing something else that is cool about Yahoo's paradigm?
why doesn't anyone listen to the guy who "invented" the Web?
No need to put wuotes around that word invented there. I'd say that defining the URL notation, creating HTML as a usable mini-SGML, and of course specifying HTTP pretty much covers all the bases. Sure, others have embraced and extended and refined and toyed around with the web, but I've never heard anyone deny that Sir Tim definitively invented the web.
Honestly, there were no responses when I started to pen that "3 scary stories" response. By the time I was done, I was about the 7th person to express exact opinion.
Somehow, Katz did not latch on to that aspect of the story. But then, one could have guessed that beforehand.
I must be getting old. How can a seventh grader be praised for a story with such horrible grammar, spelling, and structure? Sure, it was creative. Sure, it was scary. But even in this email-driven, post-modern age, there are still some rules for well-formed written English.
The teacher ought to be forced to read Strunk & White. The kids ought to be assigned to each memorize a chapter. Yikes.
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As someone quickly pointed out, this is a re-run.
Last time it ran, I forwarded a link to my company's HR manager, and she thought it was really eye-opening; she forwarded it to the whole executive team.
Then again, I haven't noticed any tangible results of the widespread exposure to the article. C'est la guerre...
By association, we can assume (having never even used XML) that it is cool as well.
By this logic, one would assume that SGML is really, really, wicked cool, being the granddaddy superset.
Back in the day, I wrote all my term papers at The 'tute in Scribe, before TeX and LATeX came along... Scribe fizzled and is hardly remembered, but it apparently was a direct progenitor of SGML, which became the framework within which HTML and, more recently, XML were defined.
The XML gods have done a remarkable job of finding a delicate balance between the flexibility and completeness of SGML vs. the ease of understanding HTML.
I, for one, would love to see XML become a prominent technology. A project such as this, if it catches fire in the GNU/Linux marketplace, would be a nice proof-of-concept and could help move XML into prominence.
Business Model Google provides its search technologies commercially to customers through its Google WebSearchTM and Google SiteSearchTM services. Google's commercial products are hosted by Google, alleviating the need for organizations to manage their own costly search software and resources. Google SiteSearch is designed to search for information contained within a specific website. For example, RedHat, Inc. uses the Google SiteSearch capability to enable its visitors to its site to search for information contained only its RedHat.com website. Google WebSearch offers web-wide search capabilities to commercial websites. Netscape's Netcenter portal uses the Google WebSearch capability to enable its visitors to search the entire web from the Netcenter portal.
So, they may be able to pay the bills with custom corporate search engines, payments from the likes of google.netscape.com, etc. Who knows, it could actually work!
When you hear "Compaq and Linux", it's natural to think "oh, they are just cashing in".
But you've got to remember that there's a little division of Compaq from Maynard, Massachusetts. Ever hear of Digital Equipment Corp.? Ever hear of a The Man They Called maddog?
Of course, one only need to look at Compaq's stock performance to see that DEC has, ahem, infected Compaq's culture. I would hope that Linux, seemingly the last refuge of the desperate in corporate circles, might be able to help them recover a little glory.
And yes, they are expected to continue to give back to the community as well.
When I signed up with world.std.com for my first post-compuserve ISP (in 1993ish), they only offered SLiRP through shell accounts and did not offer "real" SLIP or PPP access. Last time I used them (start of 1999) they still recommended that users use SLiRP instead of real PPP. std.com runs a kick ass SGI multiprocessor. Their web server is still NCSA. Perhaps they would be willing to at least help find a maintainer.
In 5 years, I never noticed any problems with SLiRP. Many thanks to the creator(s).
2.A five year commitment is too long a technology commitment in today's marketplace. Computer needs change on the order of months, not years. Even at $10/month, a company would be stupid to commit to five years.
Even at $10 / month? At 10% interest, $10 / month for 5 years has a present value of $470.65 If that includes a decent monitor, mouse, NIC, and smart card reader, it sounds like a great value to me. Of course, Sun can probably afford to sell them at no profit since you also need some number of servers and probably special proprietary software to manage serving apps to the clients...
... wherein Geordie (sp?) brings the engineer who designed The Enterprise's engine to life as a hologram. He desperately needs help solving some problem or another before the ship blows up, so he convinces the computer to create a complex profile of this engineer (who happens to be a beautiful woman). Geordie bonds with the hologram, practically falling in love.
This makes things uncomfortable at best when the actual engineer shows up to work with Geordie IRL in a later episode.
Does this Star Trek episode consitute prior art? I says "yes!".
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So MS calls their Jini UpnP? Sounds like "Hey, I've had way to much coffee at this meeting. I'd better get UpnP!"
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How about Kia? They make the Sportage, Retona, Clarus, and Pregio?!?
Here's some cars that should have been introduced during the nineties:
Geo Scrotum
Geo Speculum (would compete with Ford Probe for "Car most likely to make women squeamish"
Infiniti Q45 Explosive Space Demodulator
Cadillac Coupe de Soixante-neuf
Solaris Java, a solar-powered "smart car"
Ford Excessive, an SUV bigger than the Excursion
and, of course, the Isuzu Hemos
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I'd completely forgotten about that. Thanks for bringing back a very nice memory.
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What's the problem, too much free beer at Comdex?
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My extended family spent a week at DizKnee Whirled last November. I could have killed for a falafel, but I couldn't find any at EPCOT. It is nearly impossible to find a meal at EPCOT for under $10 that does not involve frozen reconstituted chicken nuggets or a hamburger. At least at Frontierland in the Tragic Kingdom you can find a big honkin' smoked turkey leg to gnaw on. But as a 90% vegetarian, I mostly went hungry.
To be fair, there are theme restaurants at EPCOT that feature authentic regional cuisines, but you need to make reservations early in the morning and prepare to shell out Big Bucks.
As to authenticity, "authentic" is the word most likely to be heard coming from the myriad loudspeakers at EPCOT, the word most likely to be read in the brochures. The idea that EPCOT is in any way, shape, or form authentic is laughable at best, and Orwellian at its heart.
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(Except for the freedom to say Linux without prefixing those three little inpronouncible letters.)
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The story reports that
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I didn't think I was doing anything novel. I've got to think about it more; there is probably something nifty Yahoo is doing that we did not do. But we did do the following:
Retrieve the user's "template" when they logged in, including their stock and mutual fund holdings, account numbers, etc. This data went into pre-allocated shared memory.
Regularly poll a quotes system for commonly retrieved quotes, putting data into shared memory.
Receive mutual fund price updates as they happened, putting data into shared memory.
Some data would be returned livesuch as buy / sell transaction acknowledgements, or uncommon stock quotes. The telephone UI would send a request over a message Q to a request manager, which would assign a shared memory slot with a semaphore that the client could sit on until the shared memory was filled in by a server process.
Am I missing something else that is cool about Yahoo's paradigm?
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Cygnus was going to rename themselves several months ago, were they not? Perhaps being acquired was a simpler solution than agreeing on a new name.
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No need to put wuotes around that word invented there. I'd say that defining the URL notation, creating HTML as a usable mini-SGML, and of course specifying HTTP pretty much covers all the bases. Sure, others have embraced and extended and refined and toyed around with the web, but I've never heard anyone deny that Sir Tim definitively invented the web.
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Honestly, there were no responses when I started to pen that "3 scary stories" response. By the time I was done, I was about the 7th person to express exact opinion.
Somehow, Katz did not latch on to that aspect of the story. But then, one could have guessed that beforehand.
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I must be getting old. How can a seventh grader be praised for a story with such horrible grammar, spelling, and structure? Sure, it was creative. Sure, it was scary. But even in this email-driven, post-modern age, there are still some rules for well-formed written English.
The teacher ought to be forced to read Strunk & White. The kids ought to be assigned to each memorize a chapter. Yikes.
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And coming in February, Geeks : How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho .
Apologies to the /. crew that the links above do not include the secret code that would generate a kickback for them.
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Last time it ran, I forwarded a link to my company's HR manager, and she thought it was really eye-opening; she forwarded it to the whole executive team.
Then again, I haven't noticed any tangible results of the widespread exposure to the article. C'est la guerre...
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You can listen to the show (for the next 2 weeks) here
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By association, we can assume (having never even used XML) that it is cool as well.
By this logic, one would assume that SGML is really, really, wicked cool, being the granddaddy superset.
Back in the day, I wrote all my term papers at The 'tute in Scribe, before TeX and LATeX came along... Scribe fizzled and is hardly remembered, but it apparently was a direct progenitor of SGML, which became the framework within which HTML and, more recently, XML were defined.
The XML gods have done a remarkable job of finding a delicate balance between the flexibility and completeness of SGML vs. the ease of understanding HTML.
I, for one, would love to see XML become a prominent technology. A project such as this, if it catches fire in the GNU/Linux marketplace, would be a nice proof-of-concept and could help move XML into prominence.
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If you simply can't resist every IPO to come down the pike...
Have we got a deal for you! I bet you just can't live without a Stock Trading Yucca Plant! Yes, call us today to order your very own!
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So, they may be able to pay the bills with custom corporate search engines, payments from the likes of google.netscape.com, etc. Who knows, it could actually work!
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The Deluxe model comes in 5 colors and has a leather case.
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But you've got to remember that there's a little division of Compaq from Maynard, Massachusetts. Ever hear of Digital Equipment Corp.? Ever hear of a The Man They Called maddog ?
Of course, one only need to look at Compaq's stock performance to see that DEC has, ahem, infected Compaq's culture. I would hope that Linux, seemingly the last refuge of the desperate in corporate circles, might be able to help them recover a little glory.
And yes, they are expected to continue to give back to the community as well.
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In 5 years, I never noticed any problems with SLiRP. Many thanks to the creator(s).
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Now I'm not so sure it's a good deal. I would need to read more about the server requirements first.
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Even at $10 / month? At 10% interest, $10 / month for 5 years has a present value of $470.65 If that includes a decent monitor, mouse, NIC, and smart card reader, it sounds like a great value to me. Of course, Sun can probably afford to sell them at no profit since you also need some number of servers and probably special proprietary software to manage serving apps to the clients...
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This makes things uncomfortable at best when the actual engineer shows up to work with Geordie IRL in a later episode.
Does this Star Trek episode consitute prior art? I says "yes!".
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