Actually 1999 is only the time period when MS created their own hardware design for a tablet. Before that they were pushing Windows for Pen, a Windows 3.1 based tablet OS. WfP was generally miserable, mostly vaporware. It was created soley for the purpose of putting GO Computing out of business. ( Why by a GO tablet when you can buy a fully interoperable WfP tablet ? )
GO computing and the Netwon were near simultaneous creations. In fact AT&T made tablets in 1991 using the GO os.
After the Newton failed and GO was destroyed by MS, tablet computing faded for a while--except for certain niche areas--I remember statistics collecting companies interested, and UPS/FedEx/ DHS/others, used primitive tablets because portable computing was important.
It was some time during this period of neglect that Bill Gates took up the tablet as a note taking device. He was the first one who was seriously pushing for a long period of time.
On another note, it was John Sculley who pushed real hard for the Newton. The initial Mac was supposed to be Steve Jobs redemption. Proving that Woz was not the only genius at Apple. In the same sense the Newton was to be Sculley redemption, showing that Apple could get along without Jobs.
Kind of ironic that now it's Jobs who gets the most credit for inventing the tablet.
The military is still being paid, but they are no longer sending feeds of sporting events ( including the NFL ) to the soldiers. They are however, keeping Camp David and military golf courses open ( which he plays a lot on ).
On other notes. Republicans in the House passed a resolution to keep funding NIH research ( into things like childrens cancer ), but a party line vote in the Senate killed it. They also "shutdown" the WWII monument. This despite the fact that it remained open during other shutdowns. This despite the fact that it is open 24/7 but only manned during working hours. Veterans arriving found the monument blocked off by "Barry-cades". They were not to be stopped and simply went around. So to save the money for the shutdown the adminstration hired people to wire the Barry-cades together.
Oh and the White House chefs are considered essential. They have not been furloughed. Guess they are needed to bake the cakes.
So an employee at Samsung in negotiating with Nokia, tolled the Nokia employee that he knew the details of the Apple-Nokia deal. Which they were not supposed know.
I say hang Samsung out to dry for illegally obtaining proprietary information. We all know they did. After all why would an employee lie during negotiations?
Ask any academic and they will tell you how to get articles published no matter what. Did they try this with traditional journals and get better results?
BTW, the readers are supposed to be trained in the subject. They should be able to spot a paper riddled with obvious errors and contradictions.
BTW didn't Pons and Fleischmann, publish a paper in Science?
You mean the memo that came about three years too late after BG realized the big booboo he made in blowing off the internet? The action of which started antitrust violations so egregious that the DoJ could no longer ignore MS's antitrust actions and had to join in with other people to sue them.
The suit which also brought EU regulators forwards and had so many ramifications on MS that it is even being felt today in a major way.
I have a feeling that these could easily be fooled by placing several speakers which emit variable barely audible sounds whit are emitted at random times of random frequency and of random length and changing volume.
Since when can you write emacs extensions in lisp? [1]
[1] Yes. Yes. I have written many emacs extensions and fully aware that they are generally written in a language called elisp, which kinda sorta not really mimics lisp. So please get a clue before you try to explain to me.
When you wanted to type a capital letter, the caps key would lift the platten ( the key bar had the uppercase character below the lower case character ). The upshot of that was that when you typed an uppercase letter, there would be a slowdown while you waited for the platen to rise.
If you had to type several capital letters at once, it had several major effects.
First touch typists are never supposed to use Shift, CTL or Alt. and the key on the same hand. This slows you down. Actually there were no CTL or Alt keys back then. They were eventually added to only the left side of keyboards by geeks. When IBM started creating keyboards that directly entered strokes into the computer, they added both left and right. So a sequence like "CAPSLOCK" would have the person bouncing the platten up and down. This made the persons hands more tired and the typing much slower.
Caps lock was a solution to that.
Of course none of that logic applies to computer keyboards.
Those are not light change requests. Those are requests to include a pedestrian cross phase in the next light change. If you approach a corner and do not press the button and no one else on either corner presses it, then you will never see a "Walk" light ( along with the appropriate red/yellow/gree/arrow combinatiuons ).
The thing is that given the billion doilar loss on the original Surface ( RT ), I think a lot of people have missed their intention.
The fact is the thing desired by a lot Microsoft supporters, the Microsoft monoculture is dead. It dies the minute some president or C*O calls IT and asks them how he can do *** on an IPad. They just aren't going to say no if they don't have to.
As for the intention to have the Surface be something different from an IPad, why are they running commercials comparing the Surface to the IPad?
Not in so many words they do. Android users do however know that if they want to watch "flash videos" they have to get flash, and that they then have to convince the browser to pretend to be on a desktop-- for example using firefox's "phony" add-on.
The American's that want SUV's want them for themselves, but not for other people. By far the worst drivers on the road are SUV drivers. Even worse then that Pravo Jazdy guy in Ireland.
I'm not for banning SUV's though, just requiring that drivers get a special license. Something stricter then a regular license, but less strict then a CDL.
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Putting up all those Barrycades costs money. So is the search for a gtarp large enough to cover the Grand Canyon.
What if you telecommute because you are disabled and it is the only way to get to work?
Actually 1999 is only the time period when MS created their own hardware design for a tablet. Before that they were pushing Windows for Pen, a Windows 3.1 based tablet OS. WfP was generally miserable, mostly vaporware. It was created soley for the purpose of putting GO Computing out of business. ( Why by a GO tablet when you can buy a fully interoperable WfP tablet ? )
GO computing and the Netwon were near simultaneous creations. In fact AT&T made tablets in 1991 using the GO os.
After the Newton failed and GO was destroyed by MS, tablet computing faded for a while--except for certain niche areas--I remember statistics collecting companies interested, and UPS/FedEx/ DHS/others, used primitive tablets because portable computing was important.
It was some time during this period of neglect that Bill Gates took up the tablet as a note taking device. He was the first one who was seriously pushing for a long period of time.
On another note, it was John Sculley who pushed real hard for the Newton. The initial Mac was supposed to be Steve Jobs redemption. Proving that Woz was not the only genius at Apple. In the same sense the Newton was to be Sculley redemption, showing that Apple could get along without Jobs.
Kind of ironic that now it's Jobs who gets the most credit for inventing the tablet.
Only half the time.
The military is still being paid, but they are no longer sending feeds of sporting events ( including the NFL ) to the soldiers.
They are however, keeping Camp David and military golf courses open ( which he plays a lot on ).
On other notes. Republicans in the House passed a resolution to keep funding NIH research ( into things like childrens cancer ), but a party line vote in the Senate killed it. They also "shutdown" the WWII monument. This despite the fact that it remained open during other shutdowns. This despite the fact that it is open 24/7 but only manned during working hours. Veterans arriving found the monument blocked off by "Barry-cades". They were not to be stopped and simply went around. So to save the money for the shutdown the adminstration hired people to wire the Barry-cades together.
Oh and the White House chefs are considered essential. They have not been furloughed. Guess they are needed to bake the cakes.
So an employee at Samsung in negotiating with Nokia, tolled the Nokia employee that he knew the details of the Apple-Nokia deal. Which they were not supposed know.
I say hang Samsung out to dry for illegally obtaining proprietary information. We all know they did. After all why would an employee lie during negotiations?
Ask any academic and they will tell you how to get articles published no matter what.
Did they try this with traditional journals and get better results?
BTW, the readers are supposed to be trained in the subject. They should be able to spot a paper riddled with obvious errors and contradictions.
BTW didn't Pons and Fleischmann, publish a paper in Science?
You mean the memo that came about three years too late after BG realized the big booboo he made in blowing off the internet?
The action of which started antitrust violations so egregious that the DoJ could no longer ignore MS's antitrust actions and had to join in with other people to sue them.
The suit which also brought EU regulators forwards and had so many ramifications on MS that it is even being felt today in a major way.
They have a link for gopher but it doesn't go anywhere. ( Yet?)
Some guy broke into the server and placed a copy of the last episode of Breaking Bad in 1040p and all the traffic was just downloaders.
So is it going to stop the stupid comments and accepted submissions?
If not why bother?
You are just Calvin hoping to get a good grade for the nice report cover he bought for his homework.
I have a feeling that these could easily be fooled by placing several speakers which emit variable barely audible sounds whit are emitted at random times of random frequency and of random length and changing volume.
Since when can you write emacs extensions in lisp? [1]
[1] Yes. Yes. I have written many emacs extensions and fully aware that they are generally written in a language called elisp, which kinda sorta not really mimics lisp. So please get a clue before you try to explain to me.
Why because the original question was hard ( it's not ) or because it was stupid ( very much so ).
Maybe you could throw some money my way. I have a great idea for a basic urban foodstuff. It's called soylent green.
Caps lock was invented for manual typewriters.
When you wanted to type a capital letter, the caps key would lift the platten ( the key bar had the uppercase character below the lower case character ).
The upshot of that was that when you typed an uppercase letter, there would be a slowdown while you waited for the platen to rise.
If you had to type several capital letters at once, it had several major effects.
First touch typists are never supposed to use Shift, CTL or Alt. and the key on the same hand. This slows you down. Actually there were no CTL or Alt keys back then. They were eventually added to only the left side of keyboards by geeks. When IBM started creating keyboards that directly entered strokes into the computer, they added both left and right. So a sequence like "CAPSLOCK" would have the person bouncing the platten up and down. This made the persons hands more tired and the typing much slower.
Caps lock was a solution to that.
Of course none of that logic applies to computer keyboards.
Those are not light change requests. Those are requests to include a pedestrian cross phase in the next light change. If you approach a corner and do not press the button and no one else on either corner presses it, then you will never see a "Walk" light ( along with the appropriate red/yellow/gree/arrow combinatiuons ).
Or github.
The problem is that they have to get in line behind all the other people leaving. That includes two Northern counties.
I still say the EU regulators will not let it happen. We'll find out come Jan/Feb.
Or Obama
The thing is that given the billion doilar loss on the original Surface ( RT ), I think a lot of people have missed their intention.
The fact is the thing desired by a lot Microsoft supporters, the Microsoft monoculture is dead. It dies the minute some president or C*O calls IT and asks them how he can do *** on an IPad. They just aren't going to say no if they don't have to.
As for the intention to have the Surface be something different from an IPad, why are they running commercials comparing the Surface to the IPad?
Not in so many words they do.
Android users do however know that if they want to watch "flash videos" they have to get flash, and that they then have to convince the browser to pretend to be on a desktop-- for example using firefox's "phony" add-on.
The American's that want SUV's want them for themselves, but not for other people. By far the worst drivers on the road are SUV drivers.
Even worse then that Pravo Jazdy guy in Ireland.
I'm not for banning SUV's though, just requiring that drivers get a special license. Something stricter then a regular license, but less strict then a CDL.
God did you ever watch the series? The Skipper at least had a straightrazor.