A blast from the past - "HP is considering the acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers' global management and information technology practice for between $17 billion and $18 billion in cash and stock, the company confirmed in a statement early this morning."
Don Bitzer is the true unsung hero of computer science - his work as head of the University Of Illinois' PLATO project touched virtually everything people love today about computers and the Internet!
Check out his 1965! patent - bitmapped graphics, audio and photographic quality images back in the sixties!
Other (pre-1975!) PLATO innovations included instant messaging, near zero latency multiplayer network gaming, distance learning, groupware, newsgroups, online newspapers, animated email, network delivery of music, client/server computing, touch screen interfaces, flat-panel displays (the basis for the ones you're just now seeing at Circuit City!), and multimedia that were delivered across a worldwide educational network with satellite and cable communications.
In his ACM article on the early days of Smalltalk, Alan Kay states that he had no idea how to implement his Dynabook concept before seeing a demo of Bitzer's patented plasma display.
Search some of the early WWW documents, and you'll be surprised to see PLATO's influence. Here's e-mail inventor Ray Tomlinson and Ethernet papa Robert Metcalfe attending a 1971 conference that included a demo of Bitzer's PLATO system before their breakthrough work. And there's communication from none less than Tim Berners-Lee encouraging early Internet pioneers to try to meet Professor Daniel Sleator's challenge to try to provide the Web with easy-to-use PLATO features from two decades earlier.
Prominent users of Bitzer's PLATO system at the University of Illinois included Groove's Ray Ozzie (who credits PLATO with giving him the idea for Lotus Notes) and Brand Fortner, a founder of Spyglass, which produced the original Internet Explorer for Microsoft.
At the risk of overestimating PLATO's profound influence, it certainly is an odd coincidence that "ground zero" of PLATO just happened to be across the street from Netscape founder Mark Andreesen's NSCA gig (where Fortner also worked at one time).
After reading it, you'll see that Bitzer's PLATO of the early '70s had far more in common with today's popular Internet that Berners-Lee's Web of the early '90s.
Don Bitzer's been the Rodney Dangerfield of the Internet for far too long - it's time to give the guy the proper respect he deserves!
Once again, can't blame me for this one -/. added these links to my original post, and also deleted the following...
"So remember that when you save $1.08 by picking up that used copy of Michael J. Fox's recently published "Lucky Man" on Amazon, you'll not only take money away from Parkinson's research Fox donates his profits, you'll also put $3.25 in Amazon's pocket!"
Can't blame me for this one -/. added these links to my original post, and also deleted the following...
"So remember that when you save $1.08 by picking up that used copy of Michael J. Fox's recently published "Lucky Man" on Amazon, you'll not only take money away from Parkinson's research ( Fox donates his profits), you'll also put $3.25 in Amazon's pocket!"
In fact, Microsoft employed two of the very tactics that Joel blames for Borland's demise to enter and conquer the database arena, thereby hastening Borland's fall.
After Borland paid $440 million for dBase, Microsoft picked up Foxpro - essentially a rewrite of dBase - for a mere $137 million to gain a foothold in the database market and underpriced the competition with the introduction of Access at $99!
Interestingly enough, the BT patent credits a 1965! patent awarded to UIUC Professor Don Bitzer for his PLATO work that sure seems like suitable prior art on its own for hyperlinks.
Don Bitzer is the true unsung hero of computer science - his work touched virtually everything people love today about computers and the Internet!
Check out the patent - bitmapped graphics, audio and photographic quality images back in 1965!
Other (pre-1975!) PLATO innovations included instant messaging, near zero latency multiplayer network gaming, distance learning, groupware, newsgroups, online newspapers, animated email, network delivery of music, client/server computing, touch screen interfaces, flat-panel displays (the basis for the ones you're just now seeing at Circuit City!), and multimedia that were delivered across a worldwide educational network with satellite and cable communications.
In his ACM article on the early days of Smalltalk, Alan Kay states that he had no idea how to implement his Dynabook concept before seeing a demo of Bitzer's patented plasma display.
Search some of the early WWW documents, and you'll be surprised to see PLATO's influence. Here's e-mail inventor Ray Tomlinson and Ethernet papa Robert Metcalfe attending a 1971 conference that included a demo of Bitzer's PLATO system before their breakthrough work. And there's communication from none less than Tim Berners-Lee encouraging early Internet pioneers to try to meet Professor Daniel Sleator's challenge to try to provide the Web with easy-to-use PLATO features from two decades earlier.
Prominent users of Bitzer's PLATO system at the University of Illinois included Groove's Ray Ozzie (who credits PLATO with giving him the idea for Lotus Notes) and Brand Fortner, a founder of Spyglass, which produced the original Internet Explorer for Microsoft.
At the risk of overestimating PLATO's profound influence, it certainly is an odd coincidence that "ground zero" of PLATO just happened to be across the street from Netscape founder Mark Andreesen's NSCA gig (where Fortner also worked at one time).
After reading it, you'll see that Bitzer's PLATO of the early '70s had far more in common with today's popular Internet that Berners-Lee's Web of the early '90s.
Don Bitzer's been the Rodney Dangerfield of the Internet for far too long - it's time to give the guy the proper respect he deserves!
Adam Warner responded to others' concerns that Tim Berners-Lee was not posting his stance on the W3C Patent Policy by noting Tim's financial involvement with (MIT-tied and W3C member) Curl Corporation, who boasts that licensees of their Curl Content language can get rid of HTML, Javascript, etc.
In early August, Curl Corporation gained 500,000 potential users via their agreement with adisoft AG.
Does Tim's Curl investment, which is in fact disclosed on the W3C site, concern you?
Although IBM announced with great fanfare that free Linux developer accounts were being made available via IBM's Linux Community Development System (LCDS), the LCDS website has not been accepting registrations for the past seven weeks!
This site's current excuse for not accepting new LCDS registrations (until at least July!) is that June registrations are currently being processed...very odd, considering that the very same web page stated throughout June that no registrations could be taken!
The web site also goes on to instruct those that were somehow able to register, but are still being ignored, not to bother IBM with further correspondence.
Interesting marketing that certainly doesn't jibe too well with IBM's claim that 'S/390's flexibility and management characteristics make it possible to add new Linux servers in minutes rather than days'.
Why not give them a chance to judge for themselves?
Why didn't BountyQuest include links to the original narrative and other materials that the 1-Click Bounty hunters provided?
Wouldn't this have been more honest than just posting BountyQuest's interpretations, which were certainly intended to back up your decision, and a link to hundreds of pages of documentation that even Tim O'Reilly admitted he didn't have the time to look at fully and try to understand?
While BountyQuest claims that entry #25 doesn't describe 1-Click shopping, the original bounty submission described a system used to browse, order, bill, accumulate and deliver items with a single mouse click - which would sound an awful lot like 1-Click shopping to most objective observers (If it walks like a duck...).
It's interesting that Charles Cella, BountyQuest CEO, took the fifth on the questions of contest impropriety, a stance that baffled Tim O'Reilly, who had the honesty to indicate he shares concerns about how the contest was judged.
Too bad you seemed to have withheld the narrative and links even from Tim O'Reilly - without it he went out on a limb and made false statements in his interview to try to justify BountyQuest's decision.
Finally, as far as the relevance of entry #25 goes, I'll leave you with the words of Jim Ward, a BountyQuest principal, who indicated in an e-mail message dated 3/20/2001 that..."We recognized, and even stressed, that many of the other submissions were relevant, and yours was clearly in that group."
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A blast from the past - "HP is considering the acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers' global management and information technology practice for between $17 billion and $18 billion in cash and stock, the company confirmed in a statement early this morning."
Don Bitzer is the true unsung hero of computer science - his work as head of the University Of Illinois' PLATO project touched virtually everything people love today about computers and the Internet!
Check out his 1965! patent - bitmapped graphics, audio and photographic quality images back in the sixties!
Other (pre-1975!) PLATO innovations included instant messaging, near zero latency multiplayer network gaming, distance learning, groupware, newsgroups, online newspapers, animated email, network delivery of music, client/server computing, touch screen interfaces, flat-panel displays (the basis for the ones you're just now seeing at Circuit City!), and multimedia that were delivered across a worldwide educational network with satellite and cable communications.
In his ACM article on the early days of Smalltalk, Alan Kay states that he had no idea how to implement his Dynabook concept before seeing a demo of Bitzer's patented plasma display.
Search some of the early WWW documents, and you'll be surprised to see PLATO's influence. Here's e-mail inventor Ray Tomlinson and Ethernet papa Robert Metcalfe attending a 1971 conference that included a demo of Bitzer's PLATO system before their breakthrough work. And there's communication from none less than Tim Berners-Lee encouraging early Internet pioneers to try to meet Professor Daniel Sleator's challenge to try to provide the Web with easy-to-use PLATO features from two decades earlier.
Prominent users of Bitzer's PLATO system at the University of Illinois included Groove's Ray Ozzie (who credits PLATO with giving him the idea for Lotus Notes) and Brand Fortner, a founder of Spyglass, which produced the original Internet Explorer for Microsoft.
At the risk of overestimating PLATO's profound influence, it certainly is an odd coincidence that "ground zero" of PLATO just happened to be across the street from Netscape founder Mark Andreesen's NSCA gig (where Fortner also worked at one time).
For more info on PLATO, check out David Woolley's excellent PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community.
After reading it, you'll see that Bitzer's PLATO of the early '70s had far more in common with today's popular Internet that Berners-Lee's Web of the early '90s.
Don Bitzer's been the Rodney Dangerfield of the Internet for far too long - it's time to give the guy the proper respect he deserves!
Once again, can't blame me for this one - /. added these links to my original post, and also deleted the following...
"So remember that when you save $1.08 by picking up that used copy of Michael J. Fox's recently published "Lucky Man" on Amazon, you'll not only take money away from Parkinson's research Fox donates his profits, you'll also put $3.25 in Amazon's pocket!"
Can't blame me for this one - /. added these links to my original post, and also deleted the following...
"So remember that when you save $1.08 by picking up that used copy of Michael J. Fox's recently published "Lucky Man" on Amazon, you'll not only take money away from Parkinson's research ( Fox donates his profits), you'll also put $3.25 in Amazon's pocket!"
The problem with unstated motivations II ? :-)
Problems with MS-Software?
Don't even think about contacting Microsoft Tech Support without a Passport!
Joel's memory seems a bit selective to me.
In fact, Microsoft employed two of the very tactics that Joel blames for Borland's demise to enter and conquer the database arena, thereby hastening Borland's fall.
After Borland paid $440 million for dBase, Microsoft picked up Foxpro - essentially a rewrite of dBase - for a mere $137 million to gain a foothold in the database market and underpriced the competition with the introduction of Access at $99!
Interestingly enough, the BT patent credits a 1965! patent awarded to UIUC Professor Don Bitzer for his PLATO work that sure seems like suitable prior art on its own for hyperlinks.
Don Bitzer is the true unsung hero of computer science - his work touched virtually everything people love today about computers and the Internet!
Check out the patent - bitmapped graphics, audio and photographic quality images back in 1965!
Other (pre-1975!) PLATO innovations included instant messaging, near zero latency multiplayer network gaming, distance learning, groupware, newsgroups, online newspapers, animated email, network delivery of music, client/server computing, touch screen interfaces, flat-panel displays (the basis for the ones you're just now seeing at Circuit City!), and multimedia that were delivered across a worldwide educational network with satellite and cable communications.
In his ACM article on the early days of Smalltalk, Alan Kay states that he had no idea how to implement his Dynabook concept before seeing a demo of Bitzer's patented plasma display.
Search some of the early WWW documents, and you'll be surprised to see PLATO's influence. Here's e-mail inventor Ray Tomlinson and Ethernet papa Robert Metcalfe attending a 1971 conference that included a demo of Bitzer's PLATO system before their breakthrough work. And there's communication from none less than Tim Berners-Lee encouraging early Internet pioneers to try to meet Professor Daniel Sleator's challenge to try to provide the Web with easy-to-use PLATO features from two decades earlier.
Prominent users of Bitzer's PLATO system at the University of Illinois included Groove's Ray Ozzie (who credits PLATO with giving him the idea for Lotus Notes) and Brand Fortner, a founder of Spyglass, which produced the original Internet Explorer for Microsoft.
At the risk of overestimating PLATO's profound influence, it certainly is an odd coincidence that "ground zero" of PLATO just happened to be across the street from Netscape founder Mark Andreesen's NSCA gig (where Fortner also worked at one time).
For more info on PLATO, check out David Woolley's excellent PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community.
After reading it, you'll see that Bitzer's PLATO of the early '70s had far more in common with today's popular Internet that Berners-Lee's Web of the early '90s.
Don Bitzer's been the Rodney Dangerfield of the Internet for far too long - it's time to give the guy the proper respect he deserves!
Adam Warner responded to others' concerns that Tim Berners-Lee was not posting his stance on the W3C Patent Policy by noting Tim's financial involvement with (MIT-tied and W3C member) Curl Corporation, who boasts that licensees of their Curl Content language can get rid of HTML, Javascript, etc.
In early August, Curl Corporation gained 500,000 potential users via their agreement with adisoft AG.
Does Tim's Curl investment, which is in fact disclosed on the W3C site, concern you?
A year or two ago, Newsweek did a feature on eBooks.
The chief lament was that they were more incovenient than real books.
Elsewhere in the same issue, there was a story about computer displays embedded in (albeit oversized at the time) eyeglasses.
EUREKA!!!!!!!!
Although IBM announced with great fanfare that free Linux developer accounts were being made available via IBM's Linux Community Development System (LCDS), the LCDS website has not been accepting registrations for the past seven weeks!
This site's current excuse for not accepting new LCDS registrations (until at least July!) is that June registrations are currently being processed...very odd, considering that the very same web page stated throughout June that no registrations could be taken!
The web site also goes on to instruct those that were somehow able to register, but are still being ignored, not to bother IBM with further correspondence.
Interesting marketing that certainly doesn't jibe too well with IBM's claim that 'S/390's flexibility and management characteristics make it possible to add new Linux servers in minutes rather than days'.
What gives??????
Why not give them a chance to judge for themselves?
..."We recognized, and even stressed, that many of the other submissions were relevant, and yours was clearly in that group."
Why didn't BountyQuest include links to the original narrative and other materials that the 1-Click Bounty hunters provided?
Wouldn't this have been more honest than just posting BountyQuest's interpretations, which were certainly intended to back up your decision, and a link to hundreds of pages of documentation that even Tim O'Reilly admitted he didn't have the time to look at fully and try to understand?
While BountyQuest claims that entry #25 doesn't describe 1-Click shopping, the original bounty submission described a system used to browse, order, bill, accumulate and deliver items with a single mouse click - which would sound an awful lot like 1-Click shopping to most objective observers (If it walks like a duck...).
It's interesting that Charles Cella, BountyQuest CEO, took the fifth on the questions of contest impropriety, a stance that baffled Tim O'Reilly, who had the honesty to indicate he shares concerns about how the contest was judged.
Too bad you seemed to have withheld the narrative and links even from Tim O'Reilly - without it he went out on a limb and made false statements in his interview to try to justify BountyQuest's decision.
Finally, as far as the relevance of entry #25 goes, I'll leave you with the words of Jim Ward, a BountyQuest principal, who indicated in an e-mail message dated 3/20/2001 that