i heard a story a while back (may be myth) that during hangar testing of a new aircraft's computer systems one of the engineers decided to pull the fuse on one of the 5 redundant computer systems. the computer shut down and one of its siblings took over control of the systems it had been managing. however, the default state for one of the systems assumed that the aircraft was in flight, so it dutifully retracted the undercariage. doh!
unless your pointing at the ground. an if you've even been in an acrobatic plane (such as a jet fighter) then you'll know it's oftern extremely hard to know intuitively which way is up - especially when you're in the clouds.
yeah, we'd all like to live in utopia, but wake up and smell the zeitgeist, pal: we don't. i'm perfectly happy with law-abiding citizens carrying guns. it's the criminals i'm worried about. ever tried calling a law enforcement agent while you're being assaulted? don't bother, just carry one in your pocket.
you could say the same thing about nucler weapons, but it could be argued that the possesion of them is deterrant enough. An assailant is much less likely to attack you or your home if he thinks there might be a chance you may be carrying a gun. Especially since if you are, you probably know how to use it better than he does. Amongst a pack of lions what would you rather be, a wounded elk, or a lion?
yeah, but you trivialize XML. you're whining about an insignificant syntactical aspect of XML. from what you've shown your 'language' has no handling of encodings, namespaces or schema-based validation, all of which form the basis of whats really useful about XML.
Funny thing is it's trivial to convert this to XML, but yet vice-versa isn't necessarily so easy. (because of the above example)
it would be simple to write an XSLT stylesheet to render any XML document in your language. how is your example not equivalent to:
what are you talking about? you can 'muck about' with office documents right now with whatever language you want, Perl included. You don't need XML to do it.
early versions of IE were based on mosaic/spyglass, but more recent versions (since version 3, i think) were based on Trident, a complete rewrite of the HTML rendering engine primarily designed to allow interactive HTML editing (design mode). The design mode features were only recently enabled, however.
Alternatively, just unbind 'File and Printer sharing' and 'Client for Microsoft Networks' on the dial-up networking item that connects you to the internet. There are still a few legitimate uses of the messenger service that you might still want enabled across your internal network.
Of course, if you're one of those poor souls running some bastard custom dialer (eg, SBC/EnterNet) then you're SOL.
I'll bite. With non-native widgets, you're executing code that no other app is executing, and loading data that no other app is loading, thus increasing the load on your processor's cache, filesystem cache and physical memory. Sharing, reuse, modularity are all good.
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funnily enough OE was originally written as a shell extension designed to be embedded into the explorer namespace (under My Computer somewhere), but I don't think that idea ever made it beyond the developers' machines.
I believe that the first is referring to overzealous usage of the word 'whom'. For example, "He gave the object to whomever he chose." is incorrect because 'whom' is the object case of that interrogative pronoun but is being used here as a predicate nominative (a repetition of the subject) of the verb 'to give'.
The second refers to the common practice of replacing singular pronouns (he/she) and singular posessive pronouns (his/her) with their plural equivalents (them/their) in a context where gender is unknown. The example given should read "Everyone open his or her book!" since the word 'everyone' is a singular anticedant.
Yeah, but funnily enough, about the same percentage of computer users buy/use software with restrictive usage agreements. So I'm not sure your analogy is quite accurate.
no, the novel part is the computer. go to the DMV on any regularly busy day, and the first thing you'll have to do is take a numbered ticket from a machine. When your number appears on a display above one of several manned counters (either that, or someone just shouts out your number), then it's your turn at that display.
The DMV in WA takes this idea a step further by having multiple ticket types, each type assignable to different personnel capable of handling each type of request.
In fact, come to think of it the tickets in the WA DMV may well have had the approximate time you should expect to be serviced printed on them (this is ca 1995, so it's a little fuzzy). If that's the case, then since they had arbitrary assignments for each ticket type, then I'm guessing that would be prior art for this patent since one of the ticket types could easily have been assigned to the bathroom.
apart from the fact that it applies to bathrooms, how is this any different from the age-old "take a number, take a seat" system used in waiting rooms and supermarket delis around the world? I guess the aparatus (claims 17/26) could be said to be new, but harldy a stroke of genius, especially not in 2000AD. I wouldn't be surprised if the Romans used something like this...
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i heard a story a while back (may be myth) that during hangar testing of a new aircraft's computer systems one of the engineers decided to pull the fuse on one of the 5 redundant computer systems. the computer shut down and one of its siblings took over control of the systems it had been managing. however, the default state for one of the systems assumed that the aircraft was in flight, so it dutifully retracted the undercariage. doh!
unless your pointing at the ground. an if you've even been in an acrobatic plane (such as a jet fighter) then you'll know it's oftern extremely hard to know intuitively which way is up - especially when you're in the clouds.
how else do you fund political campaigns? do you expect the candidates to fund themselves?
Yup, the corporations aren't the ones with the nuclear weapons or the 1040 forms.
"the right of the people peaceably to assemble" sounds to me like corporations fit that description...
yeah, we'd all like to live in utopia, but wake up and smell the zeitgeist, pal: we don't. i'm perfectly happy with law-abiding citizens carrying guns. it's the criminals i'm worried about. ever tried calling a law enforcement agent while you're being assaulted? don't bother, just carry one in your pocket.
i didn't say anything about linux, but you can do it with java.
you could say the same thing about nucler weapons, but it could be argued that the possesion of them is deterrant enough. An assailant is much less likely to attack you or your home if he thinks there might be a chance you may be carrying a gun. Especially since if you are, you probably know how to use it better than he does. Amongst a pack of lions what would you rather be, a wounded elk, or a lion?
yeah, but criminal activity often precludes giving out your phone number or operating on credit card networks.
the bitmaps are stored as encoded data, the drawings are stored as standard VML.
what are you talking about? you can 'muck about' with office documents right now with whatever language you want, Perl included. You don't need XML to do it.
early versions of IE were based on mosaic/spyglass, but more recent versions (since version 3, i think) were based on Trident, a complete rewrite of the HTML rendering engine primarily designed to allow interactive HTML editing (design mode). The design mode features were only recently enabled, however.
Of course, if you're one of those poor souls running some bastard custom dialer (eg, SBC/EnterNet) then you're SOL.
And RiscOS (which also had a 'dock') predated NeXTStep, I believe.
I'll bite. With non-native widgets, you're executing code that no other app is executing, and loading data that no other app is loading, thus increasing the load on your processor's cache, filesystem cache and physical memory. Sharing, reuse, modularity are all good.
funnily enough OE was originally written as a shell extension designed to be embedded into the explorer namespace (under My Computer somewhere), but I don't think that idea ever made it beyond the developers' machines.
wow, that brings back some old memories... of my latin classes... ugh.
The second refers to the common practice of replacing singular pronouns (he/she) and singular posessive pronouns (his/her) with their plural equivalents (them/their) in a context where gender is unknown. The example given should read "Everyone open his or her book!" since the word 'everyone' is a singular anticedant.
You've obviously never been to a Microsoft company meeting...
Yeah, but funnily enough, about the same percentage of computer users buy/use software with restrictive usage agreements. So I'm not sure your analogy is quite accurate.
The DMV in WA takes this idea a step further by having multiple ticket types, each type assignable to different personnel capable of handling each type of request.
In fact, come to think of it the tickets in the WA DMV may well have had the approximate time you should expect to be serviced printed on them (this is ca 1995, so it's a little fuzzy). If that's the case, then since they had arbitrary assignments for each ticket type, then I'm guessing that would be prior art for this patent since one of the ticket types could easily have been assigned to the bathroom.
apart from the fact that it applies to bathrooms, how is this any different from the age-old "take a number, take a seat" system used in waiting rooms and supermarket delis around the world? I guess the aparatus (claims 17/26) could be said to be new, but harldy a stroke of genius, especially not in 2000AD. I wouldn't be surprised if the Romans used something like this...
yup, I'm a big fan of the JBs. I have two stiped in my dev machine and they scream (speed, not sound).
it does? please tell...