Reminds me of the early goals of Netscape's Aurora desktop in 1997 -which I never did get to use.
A web based desktop i expect has a better chance to make it in this AJAX/REST/WS era and the web based office suites to make it more interesting.
Looking back at Aurora, I'm impressed now how they project adopted RDF early on. I hope the new project goes the same route and leverages the now more viable field semantic technology and linked opendata.
I'm writing from the conference itself. I walked in without prior registration and without a problem. I gave my company name and was waved through, two of my coworkers had registered so that *may* have helped. Seating is definitely limited and water, coffee breaks, and lunch are provided so I can understand the organizers wanting to have a head count and requiring registration -thats just basic planning.
Exactly! I reversed escape and capslock on my kinesis keyboard which has the deficiency of the esc key being too small and far away vs regular keyboards. Its been great, especially if you're a vi user. I would do the same on any keyboard I have to use regularly.
As comic books and audio books. My coworkers has the audio books made in the 80s, I believe based on a comic book continuation of the story line. Some of the original actors leant their voices to the audio books even. Key plot points:
* The emporer didn't truly die, his spirit flew back
to to evil emporer world at the center of the galazy
and went into a new clone host.
* Luke goes to evil world to find him, gets even
more tempted by the dark side, crosses over breifly
I think, but snaps out of it eventually.
* Eventually all of the clones are killed and the
emporer is done in. For real this time!
* Han and Leia get married, have kids, Han becomes
a general.
* Luke gets married but his wife is killed.
* There was a sentient tree that was a Jedi.
* Obi-Wan can no longer maintain his identity within
the force and starts to fade out.
* More Death Stars, but cube shaped, and called
Planet Killers (I think)
Its been a few years, my memory is fuzzy here. Does the above sound familiar to anyone?
So now we know how ole Darthy came to be, how about a prequel or two to present the back story for the emporer? What's eating him anyway?
eh, and if it could run as an applet, and also support applets...oh my! actually, can any application do this? run itself within itself, within itself.. ad infinitim??
sun seems to jump from gimic to gimic a little too frequently for a healthy company. Does anyone have a link to a history file of Sun's marketing campaigns?
If You Really Lived in the 23rd Century...
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Where path do you imagine your life would have taken? Are you more likely to have lead the life of an actor or of a star ship captain?
And it is very much alive and well. The difference is that the first 12 months are all 30 days long (the year having started on Sept. 11th or 12th if a Gregorian leap year occured) and the last month having 5 days (or 6 if it is an Ethiopian leap year). Eritrea used the calendar too until just recently. The last month is "Pagume" which is supposed to be a Greek word, so Greece may have used the calendar as well, likely then so would have the Copts.
The present year is 1993 by the way:-) [insert y2k joke here]
I remember in the mid 80s reading in a mazaine like "Omni" or something similar where a 13 month Gregorian based calendar was proposed. Each month had 28 days, the new months was named "Sol" and inserted between June and July (a northern hemisphere bias).
Definitely not a new idea no matter how you look at it. "localedef" that comes with glibc-2.2 rejects as 13 month unfortunately, I've tried...
Thanks for mentioning HyperTeX, it was the first thing I thought of after reading the subject. I believe HyperTeX has been around since '94 (certainly '95). So if there were any chance of LaTeX replacing HTML it would have happened long ago.
ah well.. wonder what the web would be like today had TeX prevailed, probably a lot smaller, perhaps we would have lost XML too.
As a young reader I remember enjoying Heinlin immensely as well as the "Flinx and Pip" series of Alan Dean Foster. I think all books in Foster's Commonwealth universe are a great kick. The concepts in the '40-'50s scifi novels are easy to grasp for young readers, more cowboyish, less quantuum physics. My books are all boxed up now, Clifford Simack (unless I've mangaled his name) was another author I enjoyed a lot.
My recommendation would be to head to a used book store and start of with the tried and true favorites!
Hey, back in The Days (TM) as a 10 year old hungry for any new scrap of Star Wars I loved it!! Remember that there was no certainty of Empire coming out 3 longs years later. This was '77 and as the author covers variety shows were in vogue and they defined what to us then was leading-edge television. But for kids my age we couldn't get the topical humor, but because the adults were laughing we knew this had to be cool stuff. So when the holiday special appeared with the same formula but with Star Wars characters we couldn't wait, this was a show made for _us_!! Now we would get all the inside stuff more than the adults would. But man, to think now of Bea Arthur and Princess Leia singing, my god.. Actually I didn't remember any of that. My only lasting memory was that "wookies live in trees", possibly also in northern california. Of course this inspired our imagination anytime we would visit a forest later. When the forest world of the Ewoks was introduced to us ROTJ my first thought was, "hey, this is a lot like Chewie's home world, he should feel quite a natural in this place." Anyway, my compliments to the author of the review for bringing back those memories in the marvelous way he did.
I remember the lack of discussion on these tools was a critizism of the first book (or I've got my books mixed up)? Does any book cover these in the detail needed for a first timer?
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Reminds me of the early goals of Netscape's Aurora desktop in 1997 -which I never did get to use.
A web based desktop i expect has a better chance to make it in this AJAX/REST/WS era and the web based office suites to make it more interesting.
Looking back at Aurora, I'm impressed now how they project adopted RDF early on. I hope the new project goes the same route and leverages the now more viable field semantic technology and linked opendata.
I'm writing from the conference itself. I walked in without prior registration and without a problem. I gave my company name and was waved through, two of my coworkers had registered so that *may* have helped. Seating is definitely limited and water, coffee breaks, and lunch are provided so I can understand the organizers wanting to have a head count and requiring registration -thats just basic planning.
Exactly! I reversed escape and capslock on my kinesis keyboard which has the deficiency of the esc key being too small and far away vs regular keyboards. Its been great, especially if you're a vi user. I would do the same on any keyboard I have to use regularly.
As comic books and audio books. My coworkers has the audio books made in the 80s, I believe based on a comic book continuation of the story line. Some of the original actors leant their voices to the audio books even. Key plot points:
* The emporer didn't truly die, his spirit flew back
to to evil emporer world at the center of the galazy
and went into a new clone host.
* Luke goes to evil world to find him, gets even
more tempted by the dark side, crosses over breifly
I think, but snaps out of it eventually.
* Eventually all of the clones are killed and the
emporer is done in. For real this time!
* Han and Leia get married, have kids, Han becomes
a general.
* Luke gets married but his wife is killed.
* There was a sentient tree that was a Jedi.
* Obi-Wan can no longer maintain his identity within
the force and starts to fade out.
* More Death Stars, but cube shaped, and called
Planet Killers (I think)
Its been a few years, my memory is fuzzy here. Does the above sound familiar to anyone?
So now we know how ole Darthy came to be, how about a prequel or two to present the back story for the emporer? What's eating him anyway?
right, this looks like Ethiopic Reloaded.
e %20one.htm
http://ethiozena.net/misc/1997.pdf
If the Gregorian were to refrom though, the Unifon calendar should be given serious consideratin:
http://www.unifon.org/continued%20Culkin%20articl
13 months of 28 days, extra month called "Sol" between June and July -even simpler!
"The Prisoner" was the first thought that came to my mind also:
http://www.retroweb.com/prisoner.html
...and can it be run as an applet? ;-)
.. ad infinitim??
eh, and if it could run as an applet, and also support applets...oh my! actually, can any application do this? run itself within itself, within itself
or... " We're the 'top' in 'Desktop'! "
sun seems to jump from gimic to gimic a little too frequently for a healthy company. Does anyone have a link to a history file of Sun's marketing campaigns?
Where path do you imagine your life would have taken? Are you more likely to have lead the life of an actor or of a star ship captain?
Is CA now looking for an alternative to Oracle? Looks like this might be an opportunity for free software to come to the rescue.
Yep!
:-) [insert y2k joke here]
And it is very much alive and well. The difference is that the first 12 months are all 30 days long (the year having started on Sept. 11th or 12th if a Gregorian leap year occured) and the last month having 5 days (or 6 if it is an Ethiopian leap year). Eritrea used the calendar too until just recently. The last month is "Pagume" which is supposed to be a Greek word, so Greece may have used the calendar as well, likely then so would have the Copts.
The present year is 1993 by the way
I remember in the mid 80s reading in a mazaine like "Omni" or something similar where a 13 month Gregorian based calendar was proposed. Each month had 28 days, the new months was named "Sol" and inserted between June and July (a northern hemisphere bias).
Definitely not a new idea no matter how you look at it. "localedef" that comes with glibc-2.2 rejects as 13 month unfortunately, I've tried...
Thanks for mentioning HyperTeX, it was the first thing I thought of after reading the subject. I believe HyperTeX has been around since '94 (certainly '95). So if there were any chance of LaTeX replacing HTML it would have happened long ago.
ah well.. wonder what the web would be like today had TeX prevailed, probably a lot smaller, perhaps we would have lost XML too.
> That's pretty close. its not 'close' its NEAR ! :-)
Anyone know if Plan9 got the FSF and OpenSorce org's stamp of approval?
As a young reader I remember enjoying Heinlin immensely as well as the "Flinx and Pip" series of Alan Dean Foster. I think all books in Foster's Commonwealth universe are a great kick. The concepts in the '40-'50s scifi novels are easy to grasp for young readers, more cowboyish, less quantuum physics. My books are all boxed up now, Clifford Simack (unless I've mangaled his name) was another author I enjoyed a lot.
My recommendation would be to head to a used book store and start of with the tried and true favorites!
Hey, back in The Days (TM) as a 10 year old hungry for any new scrap of Star Wars I loved it!! Remember that there was no certainty of Empire coming out 3 longs years later. This was '77 and as the author covers variety shows were in vogue and they defined what to us then was leading-edge television. But for kids my age we couldn't get the topical humor, but because the adults were laughing we knew this had to be cool stuff. So when the holiday special appeared with the same formula but with Star Wars characters we couldn't wait, this was a show made for _us_!! Now we would get all the inside stuff more than the adults would. But man, to think now of Bea Arthur and Princess Leia singing, my god.. Actually I didn't remember any of that. My only lasting memory was that "wookies live in trees", possibly also in northern california. Of course this inspired our imagination anytime we would visit a forest later. When the forest world of the Ewoks was introduced to us ROTJ my first thought was, "hey, this is a lot like Chewie's home world, he should feel quite a natural in this place." Anyway, my compliments to the author of the review for bringing back those memories in the marvelous way he did.
I remember the lack of discussion on these tools was a critizism of the first book (or I've got my books mixed up)? Does any book cover these in the detail needed for a first timer?