Apologies for the appalling pun. But its relevant. The thing that leapt out of the article for me was 'Hey, this would be great for portable devices'. Write a translator for Bluetooth gear, instant wireless networking. Write another for GSM WAP cellular stack communication.. instant wireless productivity connections. Don't have a filesystem? Chuck it. Added an IRdA port to your device? Plugin a new service and off you go. This would rock.
Obviously this depends on the general overhead for the microkernel itself, and the resources available, but its a nice idea. A fully tailored OS is a necessity on things that are 'thin-clients'. Sounds like an option.
he can block all stories with the "United States" logo
Looks like he'll miss his name immortalised by JK then. Isn't it a little mad posting an article (well, more a soapbox speech really) about whether you should be reading the same article. It reminds me of the phrase..
'If you notice this notice you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing'
Mind you, given the current state of US politics I don't doubt that some people try to block whatever is thrown at them. I'm not a US citizen and even I'm sick of the presidential rally.
ASP isn't a language. Its a container for other languages. Its used with VBscript, JavaScript and PerlScript, alongside HTML (And others..). There are no commands in ASP.
As far as I remember ASP was designed to be a sort of glue that holds together a bunch of custom COM objects and DLLs. It was designed to be an operating environment.
In my experience building dynamic web sites (not much.. few years) ASP and PerlScript, with a drop of VB in times of boredom, have always been a good, flexible team. Depends what you're doing..
We have determined that these devices, as described, are not firearms provided that they are used solely for launching potatoes for recreational purposes
You've got to wonder what was going through the mind of the person that wrote that. There is no way anyone could write something along those line without a smile. Great.
Actually, thats not really very likely. When (if) the bubble bursts Google are more likely to be one of the few that remain. They don't have a particularly good business model true, but they do have a tangible product. People will always want information, the faster and more accurate the better. If people are using the search engine then other people will pay to advertise on it. Fortunately for all of us the groovy guys behind Google haven't sold out. They could well promote the site as 'most popular search engine' or biggest' or whatever, they could come up with 'MyGoogle' or 'GooglePassport'. But they haven't. Just because they aren't assimilating users at the rate of AOL or MSN doesn't mean they're bad.
I'm just glad they haven't started on the patents yet.
Thats not much of a reason to give such a large amount to a developer.
Well, not sure about you, but I clicked that link thinking to myself 'Blackstar use Perl? Lets take a peek..'. Thats another hit. If more techy site such as Slashdot link to Blackstar in this way then thats quite a large number of hits, hits from people with high disposable incomes. This kind of stuff gets you in the press too ('UK Internet StartUp Gives Generously To Open Source' etc). Its advertising. And its alot more advertising than you'd get for $22.5k in the papers or on TV any other way. I'm suprised it doesn't happen more often.
Also, I think Blackstar was started by a developer and then bought up by venture capitalists. Quite possibly said developer wants to do some groovy with his/her new found cash. Generosity still exists apparently.
Here in Britain we have an initiative called E-Government. Its an attempt by the powers that be to get the whole of the governments proceedings online and 'web-enabled'. The main push of the idea is to save some cash, but as a secondary it is also an attempt to get politics into the average householders head. So far its not been very much, the project was launched 5 years ago, and most people in the UK don't seem to have heard anything of it, but its gathering momentum. Recently Blair announced that everything the government does will be online by 2005. Everything single form, paper, bill and act will be available over the net. Its a pretty exciting time.
This kind of venture is a fantastic way of giving power back to the people. A forum for every voting person, and one in which it'll be easy to track which politician is doing what, is supposedly just around the corner. Maybe it'll fail hopelessly. I sincerely hope it works.
Going by your logic, my 300MHz Celeron is a spank-me-senseless-super-ninja PC. After all.. look at those sluggish 8086s lingering in my attic
There is a point when a computer stops being low-end and starts being obsolete. In any other industry it would be when you can no longer purchase the machinery. It should be with computers too.
Umm.. Ok, I'm really pitiful, but the two part alignments only came in with Advanced D&D, the movie is actually alot closer to the original with just 3 alignments, Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic. I still have my copy of the Basic Rules with the nice red cover.
A 700MHz Celeron/Duron box is pretty much the lowest spec you can buy these days. Intel/AMD no longer make chips at clock speeds less than that. My 300MHz Celeron isn't 'low end'. Its obsolete.
One of the biggest problems with wireless networks is latency. Dropped packets and so on really screw things up when you're going throw tunnels and behind hills. IPv6 won't fix that. Sure, its a nice way of assigning an identifier, and it'd be groovy to have a similar system on both wired and unwired networks, but the entire IP system was never designed to be robust enough to cope with the crapness of a wireless network. The October issue of Scientic American has a pretty indepth report about wireless networks regarding WAP.. read it online at http://www.sciam.com/2000/10 00i ssue/1000alpert.html
Sounds like a great idea for Capcom, similar sales with reduced development costs. But this sort of thing would presumably give up the fancy hardware tricks that the likes of Sega and Sony use to make games bolder and more beautiful. I know little about the latest hardware, so I'll use an example I do know a little about..
Imagine they'd tried this on the old 16-bit consoles. The SNES and the Megadrive were functionally the same (16-bit CPU, 6 button/8 direction input, etc etc). But it was the little things that made games on each one so damn cool. The likes of Mode 7 field scaling and rotation on the SNES that made F-Zero and Mario Kart totally fantastic. How do you build an emulator to support custom hardware? Coz without support for it it won't be used, and all your games will end up looking like the exact same engine with new graphics and a couple of bolt on options to keep the punters from thinking they already own the title.
Hang on.. its Capcom.. all their games ARE like that.. (Street Fighter 2, Championship Edition, Super Turbo Hyper Fighting, Alpha, Alpha 3, Zero, Super Alpha Zero, Ex, Ex Alpha, Ex Alpha 2..)
Patent Application: Control of Business Competition Through The Use and Deployment of Strategic Patents and Law Suits.
An extremely popular business model throughout the late nineteen nineties and into the new millenium, patent and law suit business control is the process of filing as many applications to hinder any free market competition as possible.
Competition Management pioneers such as Microsoft, and various record companies, have refined the process of 'If-it-exists-copyright-it' marketing in order to keep a profit-centric business orinented monopoly that benefits the end user by keeping choice elements to a simplified single option. The time saving aspect of a mono-optional buying validation process is obvious, and it is important that this form of market steering is kept open.
Use of market associations such as the RIAA and MPAA are included in the competition management process.
Patent application for 'Several Hundred Click Shopping'.
This internet shopping model has previously been implemented by sites such as www.amazon.com, and www.bol.com. The logical and structured process of choosing items and adding them to a basket, followed by a simple form/answer information gathering situation should be totally ignored and replaced with as many superfluous and unusable 'gimmicks' as bandwidth will allow.
This patent is intended to work alongside our other applications for 'Random Price Management', 'Random Item Addition to Internet Shopping Baskets', and 'User Confusion Generation Through the Use of Ecletic and Illogical Naming Conventions'.
Patent Application for Individual Sexual Stimulation.
Individual Sexual Stimulation and Gratification is the process of sexual arousal and copulation by means not involving a second indivdual. The process of Individual Sexual Stimulation has been known to humans for many years. The use of apparatus during the process of Individual Sexual Stimulation includes, but is not limited to, substitute organ emulators, lubrication materials, and vacuum cleaning equipment.
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We have the Nobel prize for Physics.. how about a Nobel Prize for Psychics? I know whos getting next years.
Which law does it break in the UK? If you're refering to the Data Protection Act then you're pretty much wrong. It depends on the contract you enter into with the retailer, but I imagine that your sales details become the property of the seller once you leave the shop. If Motarola then have a contract with the retailer that he/she must give up all sales information then this data would be included. The only part of the Data Protection Act that would cover this is that there *must* be an opt out option on the form provided.
Its just possible that you could get Motarola on the HRA (Human Rights Act) as this could be considered a privacy violation, but they could argue that your provision of the data in the first place allows them to claim the information.
I am not a lawyer. I detest this kind of crap. But saying its 'against the law in the UK' ought to be backed up with some sort of evidence.
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Apologies for the appalling pun. But its relevant. The thing that leapt out of the article for me was 'Hey, this would be great for portable devices'. Write a translator for Bluetooth gear, instant wireless networking. Write another for GSM WAP cellular stack communication.. instant wireless productivity connections. Don't have a filesystem? Chuck it. Added an IRdA port to your device? Plugin a new service and off you go. This would rock.
Obviously this depends on the general overhead for the microkernel itself, and the resources available, but its a nice idea. A fully tailored OS is a necessity on things that are 'thin-clients'. Sounds like an option.
he can block all stories with the "United States" logo
Looks like he'll miss his name immortalised by JK then. Isn't it a little mad posting an article (well, more a soapbox speech really) about whether you should be reading the same article. It reminds me of the phrase..
'If you notice this notice you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing'
Mind you, given the current state of US politics I don't doubt that some people try to block whatever is thrown at them. I'm not a US citizen and even I'm sick of the presidential rally.
Unfortunate that they didn't manage to achieve their goal. Still, their failure cost alot less than Nasa's failures.
ASP isn't a language. Its a container for other languages. Its used with VBscript, JavaScript and PerlScript, alongside HTML (And others..). There are no commands in ASP.
As far as I remember ASP was designed to be a sort of glue that holds together a bunch of custom COM objects and DLLs. It was designed to be an operating environment.
In my experience building dynamic web sites (not much.. few years) ASP and PerlScript, with a drop of VB in times of boredom, have always been a good, flexible team. Depends what you're doing..
We have determined that these devices, as described, are not firearms provided that they are used solely for launching potatoes for recreational purposes
You've got to wonder what was going through the mind of the person that wrote that. There is no way anyone could write something along those line without a smile. Great.
Why not genetically manipulate one into a carriage.
No, wait, thats Cinderella..
The 1997 World Record on the site is 3718'. Thats 0.7 of a mile. 1.13KM. What the hell were these guys using? A tank?
Actually, thats not really very likely. When (if) the bubble bursts Google are more likely to be one of the few that remain. They don't have a particularly good business model true, but they do have a tangible product. People will always want information, the faster and more accurate the better. If people are using the search engine then other people will pay to advertise on it. Fortunately for all of us the groovy guys behind Google haven't sold out. They could well promote the site as 'most popular search engine' or biggest' or whatever, they could come up with 'MyGoogle' or 'GooglePassport'. But they haven't. Just because they aren't assimilating users at the rate of AOL or MSN doesn't mean they're bad.
I'm just glad they haven't started on the patents yet.
Thats not much of a reason to give such a large amount to a developer.
Well, not sure about you, but I clicked that link thinking to myself 'Blackstar use Perl? Lets take a peek..'. Thats another hit. If more techy site such as Slashdot link to Blackstar in this way then thats quite a large number of hits, hits from people with high disposable incomes. This kind of stuff gets you in the press too ('UK Internet StartUp Gives Generously To Open Source' etc). Its advertising. And its alot more advertising than you'd get for $22.5k in the papers or on TV any other way. I'm suprised it doesn't happen more often.
Also, I think Blackstar was started by a developer and then bought up by venture capitalists. Quite possibly said developer wants to do some groovy with his/her new found cash. Generosity still exists apparently.
Here in Britain we have an initiative called E-Government. Its an attempt by the powers that be to get the whole of the governments proceedings online and 'web-enabled'. The main push of the idea is to save some cash, but as a secondary it is also an attempt to get politics into the average householders head. So far its not been very much, the project was launched 5 years ago, and most people in the UK don't seem to have heard anything of it, but its gathering momentum. Recently Blair announced that everything the government does will be online by 2005. Everything single form, paper, bill and act will be available over the net. Its a pretty exciting time.
This kind of venture is a fantastic way of giving power back to the people. A forum for every voting person, and one in which it'll be easy to track which politician is doing what, is supposedly just around the corner. Maybe it'll fail hopelessly. I sincerely hope it works.
The official web site of the 'Office of the E-Envoy' (E-Government) is at http://www.e-envoy.gov.uk/egov_index.ht m.
Going by your logic, my 300MHz Celeron is a spank-me-senseless-super-ninja PC. After all.. look at those sluggish 8086s lingering in my attic
There is a point when a computer stops being low-end and starts being obsolete. In any other industry it would be when you can no longer purchase the machinery. It should be with computers too.
Umm.. Ok, I'm really pitiful, but the two part alignments only came in with Advanced D&D, the movie is actually alot closer to the original with just 3 alignments, Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic. I still have my copy of the Basic Rules with the nice red cover.
Thats not true. I always read Signal11s posts, its nice to know what the well balanced mainstream Slashdot reader thinks.
This is a major violation of our privacy
We have privacy?
When asked why the FBI would not release source, he said: "We don't sell guns, even though we have them."
Well.. not to Americans at least.
A 700MHz Celeron/Duron box is pretty much the lowest spec you can buy these days. Intel/AMD no longer make chips at clock speeds less than that. My 300MHz Celeron isn't 'low end'. Its obsolete.
One of the biggest problems with wireless networks is latency. Dropped packets and so on really screw things up when you're going throw tunnels and behind hills. IPv6 won't fix that. Sure, its a nice way of assigning an identifier, and it'd be groovy to have a similar system on both wired and unwired networks, but the entire IP system was never designed to be robust enough to cope with the crapness of a wireless network. The October issue of Scientic American has a pretty indepth report about wireless networks regarding WAP.. read it online at http://www.sciam.com/2000/10 00i ssue/1000alpert.html
Sounds like a great idea for Capcom, similar sales with reduced development costs. But this sort of thing would presumably give up the fancy hardware tricks that the likes of Sega and Sony use to make games bolder and more beautiful. I know little about the latest hardware, so I'll use an example I do know a little about..
Imagine they'd tried this on the old 16-bit consoles. The SNES and the Megadrive were functionally the same (16-bit CPU, 6 button/8 direction input, etc etc). But it was the little things that made games on each one so damn cool. The likes of Mode 7 field scaling and rotation on the SNES that made F-Zero and Mario Kart totally fantastic. How do you build an emulator to support custom hardware? Coz without support for it it won't be used, and all your games will end up looking like the exact same engine with new graphics and a couple of bolt on options to keep the punters from thinking they already own the title.
Hang on.. its Capcom.. all their games ARE like that.. (Street Fighter 2, Championship Edition, Super Turbo Hyper Fighting, Alpha, Alpha 3, Zero, Super Alpha Zero, Ex, Ex Alpha, Ex Alpha 2..)
Hemos is a troll. In the Dungeons and Dragons sense. *grin*
In particular, the following text gives me tremendous pause:
I met a bear once. He had tremendous paws.
Sorry.
Patent Application: Control of Business Competition Through The Use and Deployment of Strategic Patents and Law Suits.
An extremely popular business model throughout the late nineteen nineties and into the new millenium, patent and law suit business control is the process of filing as many applications to hinder any free market competition as possible.
Competition Management pioneers such as Microsoft, and various record companies, have refined the process of 'If-it-exists-copyright-it' marketing in order to keep a profit-centric business orinented monopoly that benefits the end user by keeping choice elements to a simplified single option. The time saving aspect of a mono-optional buying validation process is obvious, and it is important that this form of market steering is kept open.
Use of market associations such as the RIAA and MPAA are included in the competition management process.
Patent application for 'Several Hundred Click Shopping'.
This internet shopping model has previously been implemented by sites such as www.amazon.com, and www.bol.com. The logical and structured process of choosing items and adding them to a basket, followed by a simple form/answer information gathering situation should be totally ignored and replaced with as many superfluous and unusable 'gimmicks' as bandwidth will allow.
This patent is intended to work alongside our other applications for 'Random Price Management', 'Random Item Addition to Internet Shopping Baskets', and 'User Confusion Generation Through the Use of Ecletic and Illogical Naming Conventions'.
Patent Application for Individual Sexual Stimulation.
Individual Sexual Stimulation and Gratification is the process of sexual arousal and copulation by means not involving a second indivdual. The process of Individual Sexual Stimulation has been known to humans for many years. The use of apparatus during the process of Individual Sexual Stimulation includes, but is not limited to, substitute organ emulators, lubrication materials, and vacuum cleaning equipment.
We have the Nobel prize for Physics.. how about a Nobel Prize for Psychics? I know whos getting next years.
Which law does it break in the UK? If you're refering to the Data Protection Act then you're pretty much wrong. It depends on the contract you enter into with the retailer, but I imagine that your sales details become the property of the seller once you leave the shop. If Motarola then have a contract with the retailer that he/she must give up all sales information then this data would be included. The only part of the Data Protection Act that would cover this is that there *must* be an opt out option on the form provided.
Its just possible that you could get Motarola on the HRA (Human Rights Act) as this could be considered a privacy violation, but they could argue that your provision of the data in the first place allows them to claim the information.
I am not a lawyer. I detest this kind of crap. But saying its 'against the law in the UK' ought to be backed up with some sort of evidence.