Honolulu has had a problem with inattentive drivers hitting and killing people in the crosswalks.
Many of these fatalities are people legitimately in crosswalks, a few not, but in most cases the driver claims to have never seen the pedestrian.
Rather than deal with distracted driving, and as a driver and a pedestrian in Honolulu I can tell you it's rampant, they've taken to punishing the victims. As with most political moves in Hawaii, this appeases the mass of drivers who can't be bothered to look up from their cellphones (Hawaii has more cars than licensed drivers). I can't think of a pedestrian fatality that was caused by a pedestrian lost in their cellphone. Yeah, they're annoying, but not the root cause of Honolulu's problem.
I noticed that a couple of the patents featured on the site are listed as expired? Can someone explain why there's a point to invalidating expired patents? Doesn't the expiration effectively place that invention into the public domain?
Just the tone of the way you asked this question seems to indicate that you've already made up your mind that it's a bad thing and you're just for fuel for your own feelings.
I think it helps promote the feeling of being a team provided the majority on board with the idea. I once worked for a company that made it clear that they wanted to close my group down. We got summoned to the headquarters, but before we went I offered to have some polo shirts made up for my team - we all wore them to the meetings as a symbol of unity and my boss freaked. That's long in the past now, but we all still remember those shirts.
The man has created a programming language and then created an OS to run the CAD system he created for designing hardware to run his programming language natively. Maybe you think this is reinventing the wheel; but if you need the wheel to work in a particular way, then maybe it needs reinventing.
Didn't say he wasn't a genius - I would agree with this. But genius sometimes leaves the majority of us wondering what the hell he's talking about.
You can do amazing things with almost any language - you could rewrite emacs in VisualBasic, and I'm sure that there are people out there who would find this the best course for them. Chuck knows and loves Forth, so if he wanted to rewrite emacs, he'd do it in Forth. That's cool for him.
The real applicability of a language shows in it's successes - Chuck says it in his answers, Forth is not successful as a general purpose tool, but is very succesful as a component at the very low levels.
I agree with you to an extent, but Forth hasn't been rejected at all!
Forth is in broad use for very low-level embedded stuff - doesn't every Sun computer have Forth embedded in it. FreeBSD uses Forth in it's boot process, and I'm certain that there are others...
I get very uncomfortable around fanatics like Chuck - I've been an engineer for a long time and I usually find that anyone with only one tool is going to try and redefine all problems to be fixable with that tool. I've used Forth for years, but I also use C/C++, Perl, Lisp, etc. Each tool for a different problem. Forth has a well-defined and useful niche (it's longevity proves that), but it's far from something that 99% of us will ever use.
That said, his processor is really cool looking - wish I had some to play with. I can think of a lot of problems that could be solved with these and Forth. But I think that the fanaticism here will put off many backers...
I think you need to avoid the pitfall of thinking of a processor such as the 25x as general purpose. If this works, you're talking about more fundamental applications, like graphics processors, drive controllers, etc. implemented on a general purpose (sort of) processor. It would be very sweet to upgrade my video card with a software download - and not just like bug fixes and patches but whole new algorithms etc.
It's applications in communications are even more profound...
You were paid to develop the software - unless you have it IN WRITING that you have any rights to the software, you've effectively stolen their property.
It also does not help your case to say that they did not understand the GPL - this makes it look like you used subterfuge to claim rights to something you don't own and profited (reputationally, emotionally, etc.) from.
I would think that there's even the possibility for action against you. Either way, I'd pay the money to get a lawyers opinion.
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Honolulu has had a problem with inattentive drivers hitting and killing people in the crosswalks.
Many of these fatalities are people legitimately in crosswalks, a few not, but in most cases the driver claims to have never seen the pedestrian.
Rather than deal with distracted driving, and as a driver and a pedestrian in Honolulu I can tell you it's rampant, they've taken to punishing the victims. As with most political moves in Hawaii, this appeases the mass of drivers who can't be bothered to look up from their cellphones (Hawaii has more cars than licensed drivers). I can't think of a pedestrian fatality that was caused by a pedestrian lost in their cellphone. Yeah, they're annoying, but not the root cause of Honolulu's problem.
I noticed that a couple of the patents featured on the site are listed as expired? Can someone explain why there's a point to invalidating expired patents? Doesn't the expiration effectively place that invention into the public domain?
Just the tone of the way you asked this question seems to indicate that you've already made up your mind that it's a bad thing and you're just for fuel for your own feelings.
I think it helps promote the feeling of being a team provided the majority on board with the idea. I once worked for a company that made it clear that they wanted to close my group down. We got summoned to the headquarters, but before we went I offered to have some polo shirts made up for my team - we all wore them to the meetings as a symbol of unity and my boss freaked. That's long in the past now, but we all still remember those shirts.
Obviously this will power the computers of the Galactic Council.
Does anyone know what brand of radios & APs they're using?
Didn't say he wasn't a genius - I would agree with this. But genius sometimes leaves the majority of us wondering what the hell he's talking about.
You can do amazing things with almost any language - you could rewrite emacs in VisualBasic, and I'm sure that there are people out there who would find this the best course for them. Chuck knows and loves Forth, so if he wanted to rewrite emacs, he'd do it in Forth. That's cool for him.
The real applicability of a language shows in it's successes - Chuck says it in his answers, Forth is not successful as a general purpose tool, but is very succesful as a component at the very low levels.
I agree with you to an extent, but Forth hasn't been rejected at all!
Forth is in broad use for very low-level embedded stuff - doesn't every Sun computer have Forth embedded in it. FreeBSD uses Forth in it's boot process, and I'm certain that there are others...
I get very uncomfortable around fanatics like Chuck - I've been an engineer for a long time and I usually find that anyone with only one tool is going to try and redefine all problems to be fixable with that tool. I've used Forth for years, but I also use C/C++, Perl, Lisp, etc. Each tool for a different problem. Forth has a well-defined and useful niche (it's longevity proves that), but it's far from something that 99% of us will ever use.
That said, his processor is really cool looking - wish I had some to play with. I can think of a lot of problems that could be solved with these and Forth. But I think that the fanaticism here will put off many backers...
I think you need to avoid the pitfall of thinking of a processor such as the 25x as general purpose. If this works, you're talking about more fundamental applications, like graphics processors, drive controllers, etc. implemented on a general purpose (sort of) processor. It would be very sweet to upgrade my video card with a software download - and not just like bug fixes and patches but whole new algorithms etc.
It's applications in communications are even more profound...
It also does not help your case to say that they did not understand the GPL - this makes it look like you used subterfuge to claim rights to something you don't own and profited (reputationally, emotionally, etc.) from.
I would think that there's even the possibility for action against you. Either way, I'd pay the money to get a lawyers opinion.