That post meets all athe hallmarks of a troll, and it gets a (at this time) "4, Insightful?"
As the poster states, he has no exposure to Java RDBMS systems, so he obviously has no clue what he is talking about. There are many [R,OR,O]DBMS out there, and they clearly fill a niche. PointBase and CloudScape (both competitors to InstantDB) are highly complete, high perfoming databases.
And (just to me mean): They both have beter SQL support that MySQL...
First off, I think you need to reexamin Mr Hatch's record. During the Napster debate, he told the music industry that that unless the industry got together and worked how to licence music for online distribution, then the congress would impose a solution. I am far from a supporter of Mr Hatch, but I think you have at least part of the story wrong.
As to your second point, you may be minor now, but in a handfull of years you will be able to exercise your franchise. Most senators and congressmen want to be in office for a while. So make it clear they had better change their ways to get your vote.
At the time SUID was an innovation. Because Bell Labs was concerned that a patent on software might be rejected, they wrote the patent as though it were a piece of hardware.
Also since the patent had a lifetime of 17 years, it expired in 1990.
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http://www.snapstream.com/pocketpvs/default.htm
Very cool. I can put about 2 hours of video on a 64M flash card...
Yes and to do all of those things you had to buy Springboards. With the exception of wireless (which is an addon for both), I can do those things and more out of the box...
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Have you ever used a PocketPC? My first WinCE device (years ago) had a processor about the speed of the 33Mhz Dragonball VZ and 2M of RAM. It ran circles around my Palm. If all you are going to do is use the PDA as a PIM then, no you don't need that much processor or RAM.
However, useing a PDA based on a more advanced OS and a faster processor raises your expectations. I use my iPAQ as an MP3 player, a video player (I capture the morning news [and cartoons] and watch them on my commute), wireless intenet device, and a PIM. So yeah I wan't a little more power and memory.
You are forgetting about bio-concentration and bio-magninfication. The probelm was that DDT stayed in the system. So insects contaminated with DDT would be eaten by birds (concentrating all the DDT from the insects), which in turn would be eaten by a preditor or scanvenger.
Then you end up with Ospreys with egg-shells too thin to be viable
Read about it at: http://www.orst.edu/instruction/bi301/pesthist.htm
The GBA only had 256K of RAM, so you would need a special cartridge that had additional RAM. No reason why it couldn't be done but the cost would be prohibative.
Also the ARM in the GBA does not have a MMU, so you would have to use ucLinux...
My phone (a NeoPoint 1000) searches for a cell, if it can't find one it goes into a low power mode where it decreases the frequency that it looks for the cell. It can easily go 3-4 days in that mode.
The soldiers garding the bastille put up a token resistance and then surrendered (they were mostly men of retirement age). For this, the mob killed them.
Not one of the high-points of the revolution...
Actually it is more complicated than that, recordings and broadcasts weren't copyrightable until the 40's (IIRC), and were protected under other laws (or not). It can be very difficult to determin the copyright of an individual broadcast.
The legal status of old radio shows is a horrible mismash of copyright law, anti-piracy law, and individual laws pased in different states.
For example, early on radio broadcasts weren't copyrightable, but music recordings were. So the producer's of a show would publish and copyright a recording of the theme song, so that any recording of the show would be protected. Some shows (and early music recording) were protected my extentions made to high-seas piracy laws.
Basically you need to determin the status of a show on a case-by-case basis.
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That post meets all athe hallmarks of a troll, and it gets a (at this time) "4, Insightful?"
As the poster states, he has no exposure to Java RDBMS systems, so he obviously has no clue what he is talking about. There are many [R,OR,O]DBMS out there, and they clearly fill a niche. PointBase and CloudScape (both competitors to InstantDB) are highly complete, high perfoming databases.
And (just to me mean): They both have beter SQL support that MySQL...
First off, I think you need to reexamin Mr Hatch's record. During the Napster debate, he told the music industry that that unless the industry got together and worked how to licence music for online distribution, then the congress would impose a solution. I am far from a supporter of Mr Hatch, but I think you have at least part of the story wrong.
As to your second point, you may be minor now, but in a handfull of years you will be able to exercise your franchise. Most senators and congressmen want to be in office for a while. So make it clear they had better change their ways to get your vote.
Nokia's page says the gizmo plays "secure" mp3 files, which sounds to me as if it is crippled
I can find no reference to "secure" mo3. It doe say that it supports AAC (which can have DRM) and MP3...
The Dreamcast has no internal OS, it is booted off of the [CG]D-ROM. Developers have three choices:
1) Build their own
2) Use Sega's low-level OS (named IIRC Dragon)
3) Use Windows CE
At the time SUID was an innovation. Because Bell Labs was concerned that a patent on software might be rejected, they wrote the patent as though it were a piece of hardware.
Also since the patent had a lifetime of 17 years, it expired in 1990.
http://www.snapstream.com/pocketpvs/default.htm
Very cool. I can put about 2 hours of video on a 64M flash card...
Yes and to do all of those things you had to buy Springboards. With the exception of wireless (which is an addon for both), I can do those things and more out of the box...
Have you ever used a PocketPC? My first WinCE device (years ago) had a processor about the speed of the 33Mhz Dragonball VZ and 2M of RAM. It ran circles around my Palm. If all you are going to do is use the PDA as a PIM then, no you don't need that much processor or RAM.
However, useing a PDA based on a more advanced OS and a faster processor raises your expectations. I use my iPAQ as an MP3 player, a video player (I capture the morning news [and cartoons] and watch them on my commute), wireless intenet device, and a PIM. So yeah I wan't a little more power and memory.
That problem is not unique to PocketPCs. The Visor Edge, Palm V, Vx, m500, m505, and the Clie all have that problem.
You are forgetting about bio-concentration and bio-magninfication. The probelm was that DDT stayed in the system. So insects contaminated with DDT would be eaten by birds (concentrating all the DDT from the insects), which in turn would be eaten by a preditor or scanvenger.
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Then you end up with Ospreys with egg-shells too thin to be viable
Read about it at: http://www.orst.edu/instruction/bi301/pesthist.ht
The GBA only had 256K of RAM, so you would need a special cartridge that had additional RAM. No reason why it couldn't be done but the cost would be prohibative.
Also the ARM in the GBA does not have a MMU, so you would have to use ucLinux...
To quote from my other post in this thread:
Kaffe isn't dead, it continues to be maintained and extended as part of PocketLinux. Unfortunately the kaffe.org sote fails to mention this.
More accurately Kaffe is a PersonalJava 1.1 implementation. They have added much of the 1.2 and above changes that also appear in PersonalJava 2 and 3
Kaffe isn't dead, it continues to be maintained and extended as part of PocketLinux. Unfortunately the kaffe.org sote fails to mention this.
My phone (a NeoPoint 1000) searches for a cell, if it can't find one it goes into a low power mode where it decreases the frequency that it looks for the cell. It can easily go 3-4 days in that mode.
MIPS is a fairly useless benchmark, especially when refering to MISC architectures. I'd like to see the SPEC numbers for the X18...
Try more like a year or more between major releases of Java. The platform is mature these days...
The soldiers garding the bastille put up a token resistance and then surrendered (they were mostly men of retirement age). For this, the mob killed them. Not one of the high-points of the revolution...
Devo did the soundtrack to the Neuromancer game in the late 80's
In my personal experience my Palm crashed more than my iPaq has.
I don't think they started talking about it until '00. Regardless Nokia was demoing it at this years JavaOne...
Microsoft did a buyout from Spyglass back in 96/96 for about $20Mil. That's hardly nothing...
Actually it is more complicated than that, recordings and broadcasts weren't copyrightable until the 40's (IIRC), and were protected under other laws (or not). It can be very difficult to determin the copyright of an individual broadcast.
The legal status of old radio shows is a horrible mismash of copyright law, anti-piracy law, and individual laws pased in different states.
For example, early on radio broadcasts weren't copyrightable, but music recordings were. So the producer's of a show would publish and copyright a recording of the theme song, so that any recording of the show would be protected. Some shows (and early music recording) were protected my extentions made to high-seas piracy laws.
Basically you need to determin the status of a show on a case-by-case basis.
In my experience, VCs never take non-voting stock (preferred or otherwise).