I still keep a copy of Spyglass Mosaic 2.11 around. I like to test pages with an "oldest common denominator":^) It certainly barfs on pages with CSS. (As does the web page to speech software I'm writing. Poot!) Other things too. "slashdot.org" sends it into an endless tailspin.
One thing that I always find amusing is how shy it is. After it starts up, it drops under everything else on the desktop.
Funny how you and the previous poster mentioned patents. (You wouldn't be a sock-puppet, would you?) I certainly didn't mention patents, and I don't believe screen-scraping involves patents. (Although Amazon is sure to try patenting it some day.:^)
My advice wasn't legal advice, it was advice about office politics. Bozo.
You may want to take the time to VERBALLY give legal a heads-up
In writing (or email)! Always in writing! (And make sure you've got a copy.) Of course, it should be complete abject and non-trouble-making in tone, but you need to CYA if it ever hits the fan. (Blame can never be destroyed, only routed downwards.)
Heh, Rene and Alpha Micro. It's good to know that some constants remain.. constant. (Ron here from the VE2CUA days.) While I do have the January 1975 Popular Electronics issue in front of me, with the faked picture of the Altair, I'd still give the Mark-8 a nod as the first micro. 8008, what a chip!:^)
Eh, I should talk. My Explorer-85 is 23 years old, and should have been dumpster food long ago. But damnit, I soldered that beastie from scratch. (And the S-100 cards) It hacked PSBGM (before there were laws against that sort of awful thing). I wonder if my BASEX tapes will still load?
I've got a case, V20 cpu, lots of LEDs, and loads of wire-wrap. Someday I'm going to have a computer with blinky lights. (I love the smell of solder in the morning... Just don't wear shorts.)
This is a company which has apparently never come up with a standard safe way of allocating and using buffers to prevent overflow. (Other software has buffer overflow problems too from time to time, but Microsoft has a continuing plague of them, and should be able to set company-wide standards.)
Proper version compatablity testing probably gets pushed to the back of the queue by their "upgrade cycle hell", and as a result, never gets done.
And one of the main selling points of the whole registry/COM thing was backwards compatability. Your new DLL would register the old interface as well as the new one. (Or just expand the old one without breaking it.) I hate to think of all the VBRUN and MFC cruft that's built up over the years on my disk.
You'd probably be interested in the book by Julian Jaynes "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" Review
The conclusions are hardly unchallenged, but they're interesting to think about. (Never read it yet, but CBC Radio Ideas covered it in a multi-part show a number of years back.)
Sometimes hours. If they get a lot of submissions, I'm sure that they queue them to spread them out. When I submitted a story at 5ish in the afternoon, it didn't appear until 3am.
The operation was probably something of a trial. It wasn't exactly groundbreaking. Pretty routine, acid reflux isn't exactly life-threatening (IANAD), the equipment had been used locally before. They could have shifted the patient to the doctor or vice versa easily.
The worrisome part comes when they try to automate the process. Would you trust an operation to Dr Clippy? "I see that you're trying to take out the heart..."
The plus side, to me, was that the surgery was light enough on the patient that she's doing very well. And that, minus all the techno tricks, is what counts right?
They waited until the press conference to break the news. Nothing new there. Alternate headlines: "Robot goes amok, carves patient, invents cold fusion! Film at 11!" I think I can see why they waited.:^)
And in case anyone was wondering (and even if you weren't):
Here are your recent submissions to Slashdot, and their status within the system:
2001-06-16 08:26:10 www.xenu.net might be going down! (articles,censorship) (rejected)
2001-10-25 13:44:03 Paint the Moon: A collaborative work of celestial (articles,space) (rejected)
2002-03-20 13:39:42 Google drops Clambake (articles,news) (rejected)
2002-07-12 11:13:39 "You've got a heart attack!" (articles,tech) (rejected)
2002-11-06 19:19:51 Dinosaur Home Robot (articles,toys) (rejected)
2002-11-12 16:30:01 The Man of Steel meets Python - John Cleese does S (articles,humor) (rejected)
2002-11-14 10:42:33 Shooting for the X Prize (articles,space) (rejected)
2002-12-12 07:14:30 Honda Asimo Robot upgraded to handle gestures and (articles,hardware) (rejected)
2003-02-09 00:52:55 Life replicates Blade Runner (articles,humor) (rejected)
2003-03-04 21:54:39 Surgeons perform telerobotic surgery (articles,biotech) (accepted)
Summary:
rejected (9)
accepted (1)
It might be interesting to make this info available as part of a user's page info. (As well as making the rejected submissions available as part of a "Not Ready for Slashdot" page, with no comment allowed, or not.)
You know, one of my rejected submissions was about a pacemaker/cardiac monitor/defib that does almost exactly that. "You've got a heart-attack!" Is there anywhere in Slashdot that lists rejected submissions? That might make good reading on slow days.
I believe their qualification of this as a first was that they were using a standard Internet connection (abet with hipri routing and a backup connection). I think the article mentions this, or possibly the CBC radio news bit where I first heard it. (I should have included a link to CBC Radio but between submission 5pm and publication 3am, it probably dropped off the news queue.)
Slashdot Mirror
One thing that I always find amusing is how shy it is. After it starts up, it drops under everything else on the desktop.
My advice wasn't legal advice, it was advice about office politics. Bozo.
In writing (or email)! Always in writing! (And make sure you've got a copy.) Of course, it should be complete abject and non-trouble-making in tone, but you need to CYA if it ever hits the fan. (Blame can never be destroyed, only routed downwards.)
If you do leave, could you email me the name of the company, thanks! :^P
Not only flammable, but it tends to spread out on the ground. Burning Hydrogen tends to head upwards.
Eh, I should talk. My Explorer-85 is 23 years old, and should have been dumpster food long ago. But damnit, I soldered that beastie from scratch. (And the S-100 cards) It hacked PSBGM (before there were laws against that sort of awful thing). I wonder if my BASEX tapes will still load?
I've got a case, V20 cpu, lots of LEDs, and loads of wire-wrap. Someday I'm going to have a computer with blinky lights. (I love the smell of solder in the morning... Just don't wear shorts.)
Hope Nanny Ogg didn't hear that. (Whistling, stepping outside blast radius...) Stercus, stercus, stercus, moriturus sum!
Proper version compatablity testing probably gets pushed to the back of the queue by their "upgrade cycle hell", and as a result, never gets done.
As Rocky sez "That trick never works!"
The conclusions are hardly unchallenged, but they're interesting to think about. (Never read it yet, but CBC Radio Ideas covered it in a multi-part show a number of years back.)
Heh, idea for a t-shirt: "Slashdot the future!"
CBC radio will be (is) having a short bit on the operation. (12:32 est Probably it can be time-surfed at CBC Radio
Ah, never mind then. Carry on, and don't kick those ants! :^)
And the name! You left out the NAME of the last human family. Webster.
Well yes, I'm sure it is gratifying. Check Toronto's "national news" like the Globe and Mail. :^P
Now now, they've got that hill they call a mountain there. (Not unlike Montreal now that I think about it.)
Slashdot didn't have a medical/technology selection. Bite me. :^P
Could you have imagined an Alpha Micro?
The worrisome part comes when they try to automate the process. Would you trust an operation to Dr Clippy? "I see that you're trying to take out the heart..."
Go gettem tiger! Snag those dreams!
"Umm, reboot your patient and reinstall Windows?"
Check today's paper, I'm sure it will be there.
Here are your recent submissions to Slashdot, and their status within the system:
2001-06-16 08:26:10 www.xenu.net might be going down! (articles,censorship) (rejected)
2001-10-25 13:44:03 Paint the Moon: A collaborative work of celestial (articles,space) (rejected)
2002-03-20 13:39:42 Google drops Clambake (articles,news) (rejected)
2002-07-12 11:13:39 "You've got a heart attack!" (articles,tech) (rejected)
2002-11-06 19:19:51 Dinosaur Home Robot (articles,toys) (rejected)
2002-11-12 16:30:01 The Man of Steel meets Python - John Cleese does S (articles,humor) (rejected)
2002-11-14 10:42:33 Shooting for the X Prize (articles,space) (rejected)
2002-12-12 07:14:30 Honda Asimo Robot upgraded to handle gestures and (articles,hardware) (rejected)
2003-02-09 00:52:55 Life replicates Blade Runner (articles,humor) (rejected)
2003-03-04 21:54:39 Surgeons perform telerobotic surgery (articles,biotech) (accepted)
Summary:
rejected (9)
accepted (1)
It might be interesting to make this info available as part of a user's page info. (As well as making the rejected submissions available as part of a "Not Ready for Slashdot" page, with no comment allowed, or not.)
You know, one of my rejected submissions was about a pacemaker/cardiac monitor/defib that does almost exactly that. "You've got a heart-attack!" Is there anywhere in Slashdot that lists rejected submissions? That might make good reading on slow days.
I believe their qualification of this as a first was that they were using a standard Internet connection (abet with hipri routing and a backup connection). I think the article mentions this, or possibly the CBC radio news bit where I first heard it. (I should have included a link to CBC Radio but between submission 5pm and publication 3am, it probably dropped off the news queue.)