Back in '98 my highschool managed to test the tablet concept, but they used some strange mac that I have yet to see anywhere else. They said they got them fairly cheap and they wanted some of the students to "test" them out. The design was a laptop that had a touchscreen and you could fold the keyboard behind the screen to use it as a tablet. The down side was it was monochrome, fairly slow, green (shaped remarkably like the curvy imac laptops), and short on any functionality short of jotting notes. A friend of mine put it best when he said "they're best when used as a doorstop." The results: nobody used the tablet feature, they just became laptops that were beyond their years. The hand recognition was so-so and it was fruitless to review handwritten notes on it, as they tend to take up 2-3 times the pages. Why did they bother? They got them as a deal because they were discontinued. For some reason nobody bothered to question why.
A new version of MyDoom has been found that is targetting bbc.co.uk
. . . and this time it was signed once again by our curious "Andy" with the following message, "Ok, this time it's personal, don't you guys ever look into your stories, or do you now prefer to make them up like one of those tabloids?"
My leading theory: SCO had one of their people do it.
Personally, this sounds like some silly stunt SCO would pull on itself although the payout is obvious: it must have been one of those internet zealots that believe code should be free to all! Who else would make sure stupid stuff like this got published?
Well, we get sort of a good idea that it wasn't anybody disgruntled thanks to information week (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/03/13322 56&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=172) remember?
thats what it's all about though, isn't it? everybody gets to put in their expectations to give them an idea of what is wanted. If it turns out everybody suddenly wants a milkshake in 2.7, they might realize, "gee, people demand a damn milkshake, i guess we better give it to them or give them a good excuse why they're not getting it."
There was some things about what other companies wanted, since it is starting to be taken on by large companies now. It said something about IBM wanting visualization support, whatever that means, but it didn't really sound like anybody expected to actually get anything they wanted.
And all you have to do for this is use your MCSE to secure the queen elizabeth's computer running windows xp! Should be enough of a miracle to be blessed as a saint.
well duh, the uspto doesn't have enough time to figure out if it is original, so when they get something questionable-sounding like "time shifting" they just figure they'll give them the patent instead of researching it and if they don't deserve it, the courts will fix the problem for them.
but I was under the impression that Disney also did the actual writing of the movies, supplied things like the orchestra and the artists for the music, and supplied all the (famous) people to play the voices of the characters
I'm probably way off, but this sounds like they are they are going more for an attempt to divert attention away from others (maybe because they knew they were going under and it was a "hey, how far can we go, let's have fun with it? sort of thing?) and the whole thing is being funded by that "super mysterious company that keeps paying for their licensing"? Just a hunch, it seems too wonderland-ish to be very serious. The other thought is they're doing something like amazon.com ceo is doing, just on the copyright side as opposed to the patent side. Heck, maybe they were just out to tear down the GPL/GNU to begin with. There's a lot of good possiblities, but most of them smell very fishy.
Why did they go after the Simpsons but not MAD TV? They have that skit where the only good actor (the one that plays all the main rolls in every skit) sits and talks to himself about junk (straight talk or something like that?) and there's a marquee that's actually realistic.
The funny thing is I used to work for a company that still used these with all their computers, which were IBMs still running OS/2! To make it even crazier, they still use them to this day and have no plans on changing anytime soon. I wonder how long it will be before they can't find any replacement parts, they used to replace quite a few motherboards on a monthly basis (they were used pretty much 24/7)
People need to give in to the fact that everything just comes down to bare data in the end, no matter what form it is in, no matter what that data is or does, and until they realize that it all must be treated the same, we're all just running in circles trying to say it all demands its own rules for each type of data we transfer. In the end any type of information can be turned into any other type of information and thus cannot be descriminated solely by the type of data it currently is. Who knows what it might really be, there is no way of telling.
You do know that quicken 2002 does this, right? You just have to take some time and set up your budget, and then tell it to alert you if you go over that budget.
how about getting home with the groceries and having them all inventoried within seconds? or you could walk out of the house and forget something you need every day and could be reminded. there are some neat sides to this too, you just have to find them.
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Back in '98 my highschool managed to test the tablet concept, but they used some strange mac that I have yet to see anywhere else. They said they got them fairly cheap and they wanted some of the students to "test" them out. The design was a laptop that had a touchscreen and you could fold the keyboard behind the screen to use it as a tablet. The down side was it was monochrome, fairly slow, green (shaped remarkably like the curvy imac laptops), and short on any functionality short of jotting notes. A friend of mine put it best when he said "they're best when used as a doorstop." The results: nobody used the tablet feature, they just became laptops that were beyond their years. The hand recognition was so-so and it was fruitless to review handwritten notes on it, as they tend to take up 2-3 times the pages. Why did they bother? They got them as a deal because they were discontinued. For some reason nobody bothered to question why.
No, but it should mess with some people's radar detectors!
A new version of MyDoom has been found that is targetting bbc.co.uk
. . . and this time it was signed once again by our curious "Andy" with the following message, "Ok, this time it's personal, don't you guys ever look into your stories, or do you now prefer to make them up like one of those tabloids?"
My leading theory:
SCO had one of their people do it.
Personally, this sounds like some silly stunt SCO would pull on itself although the payout is obvious: it must have been one of those internet zealots that believe code should be free to all! Who else would make sure stupid stuff like this got published?
Well, we get sort of a good idea that it wasn't anybody disgruntled thanks to information week (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/03/13322 56&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=172) remember?
thats what it's all about though, isn't it? everybody gets to put in their expectations to give them an idea of what is wanted. If it turns out everybody suddenly wants a milkshake in 2.7, they might realize, "gee, people demand a damn milkshake, i guess we better give it to them or give them a good excuse why they're not getting it."
Oh yea, there was also something about Computer Associates contributing code to allow you to watch the processes real-time for security purposes.
There was some things about what other companies wanted, since it is starting to be taken on by large companies now. It said something about IBM wanting visualization support, whatever that means, but it didn't really sound like anybody expected to actually get anything they wanted.
And all you have to do for this is use your MCSE to secure the queen elizabeth's computer running windows xp! Should be enough of a miracle to be blessed as a saint.
You have your latest backup, right?
Apparently its the work of the beagle2 crew, they seem to be sitting around doing nothing as of lately and one of them took a liking to writing worms.
no, really, please don't even think of taking me seriously.
They will be selling the CDs/DVDs/etc. encrypted
besides, if you work at the jail this could make your commute a bit easier!
well duh, the uspto doesn't have enough time to figure out if it is original, so when they get something questionable-sounding like "time shifting" they just figure they'll give them the patent instead of researching it and if they don't deserve it, the courts will fix the problem for them.
but I was under the impression that Disney also did the actual writing of the movies, supplied things like the orchestra and the artists for the music, and supplied all the (famous) people to play the voices of the characters
I'm probably way off, but this sounds like they are they are going more for an attempt to divert attention away from others (maybe because they knew they were going under and it was a "hey, how far can we go, let's have fun with it? sort of thing?) and the whole thing is being funded by that "super mysterious company that keeps paying for their licensing"? Just a hunch, it seems too wonderland-ish to be very serious. The other thought is they're doing something like amazon.com ceo is doing, just on the copyright side as opposed to the patent side. Heck, maybe they were just out to tear down the GPL/GNU to begin with. There's a lot of good possiblities, but most of them smell very fishy.
Why did they go after the Simpsons but not MAD TV? They have that skit where the only good actor (the one that plays all the main rolls in every skit) sits and talks to himself about junk (straight talk or something like that?) and there's a marquee that's actually realistic.
The bridge is still intact, isn't that all that really matters?
The funny thing is I used to work for a company that still used these with all their computers, which were IBMs still running OS/2! To make it even crazier, they still use them to this day and have no plans on changing anytime soon. I wonder how long it will be before they can't find any replacement parts, they used to replace quite a few motherboards on a monthly basis (they were used pretty much 24/7)
I remember seeing a "turbo" key on an IBM keyboard once, it really had everybody confused.
People need to give in to the fact that everything just comes down to bare data in the end, no matter what form it is in, no matter what that data is or does, and until they realize that it all must be treated the same, we're all just running in circles trying to say it all demands its own rules for each type of data we transfer. In the end any type of information can be turned into any other type of information and thus cannot be descriminated solely by the type of data it currently is. Who knows what it might really be, there is no way of telling.
You do know that quicken 2002 does this, right? You just have to take some time and set up your budget, and then tell it to alert you if you go over that budget.
So what happens when i opt to take the camera to court over the fine? Something tells me it won't show.
how about getting home with the groceries and having them all inventoried within seconds? or you could walk out of the house and forget something you need every day and could be reminded. there are some neat sides to this too, you just have to find them.
well duh, look at the license plates! they're florida!