The PARCTAB has been under development since early 1992. In March 1993 we released the first system for general (non-project) use [...]
By early 1994 the system had stabilized and the software entered a maintenance stage where development was limited to bug fixes and applications. At this time there were 41 lab members using tabs
By that time, Apple was shipping Newtons to paying customers. When the development of the ParcTAB started, Apple already had announced the Newton, early development started in 1988. Bad example.
Here's a nice timeline for the development of the PDA, also showing one shipping before the Newton, the Amstrad PenPad.
I searched and I searched, but where is the information on how to port Active X to other platforms and include it in browsers beside IE?
And no, just because almost every browser in the world can handle NPIs doesn't make them a standard - just a defacto standard.
As for running the Flash NPI for Linux on OS/2, why would you need to, there is one for OS/2, because it's relatively easy to port NPIs from one platform to the other.
OTOH, I recently read that some guys made ActiveX PIs run on KDE via WINE.
Hey, you! Yes, the one who can't read! Who's talking about the Netscape browser. There are other browser, dontchaknow - who do use Netscape plug-ins. Because those are an open spec.
What the problem is, you ask? Well, most browsers can use Netscape plug-ins, including those for Linux and Mac (though those for the Mac need to be ported to PPC code). IOW if somebody wrote a Netscape PI, you could run it an almost all machines.
When IE doesn't support NPIs, while being the majority browser, developers will have to decide if they want to write two plug-ins, one for IE, and one for the rest of all browsers, or just write one for IE.
I case you didn't get it yet, MS is trying to break a working defacto standard of a competitor (that benefits all users) by using their monopoly power. IOW nothing new to be seen here.
I am not aware of anyone producing a licenced DVD player for Linux that is open source, that is free, or for general PCs. All the efforts to produce open source DVD players for Linux are unlicenced, and it's been made pretty clear (such as by actually having Johanssen extradited to the USA, and by Valenti lying in a submission to Kaplan's already biased court, about the nature of the open source movement) that Hollywood is 100% opposed to such developments.
Well, "Hollywood" is totaly O.K. with any DVD-Player, software or not, that is licenced, and AFAICT from http://www.dvdcca.org/, part of that (the CSS decoding) will cost a minimum of $5000 per year. So whoever wants to blow that money on a free Linux DVD-player is free to do so. Open source may not be possible even then however.
Blah, blah. You may have to prove that you are able to drive a car without danger to yourself or others, but you still have the principle right to drive a car. BTW, many blinds have driven a car under supervision.
Anyway, nowhere in the constitution does it say you have the right to walk down any street you want without being monitored and/or checked whether you are a criminal.
Maybe this is the true reason for installing the system, not identifying and catching criminals, but to keep unwanted persons (including criminals and "troublemakers") out of Ybor City?
If they used the face recognition system to identify him (via his drivers licence photo) to be the man on the newspaper photo - the system obviously worked quite well.
Let's see, the woman had a failure rate of 100%. I guess the face recognition system is much better than this. Anyway, why does everybody assume that a positive identification by the system will not be cross-checked by a human immediatly?
First of all, show me where it says that you don't have the RIGHT to drive a car or fly a plane. It should however be easy to show that you do NOT have the right to walk down every street you like (e.g. Highways);-)
Anyway, every time a cop looks at you, he attempts to match you to a criminal face. That's 24/7, every time you walk by that cop. That is his job, that's why they get descriptions and photos of "new" criminals at the beginning of each of their shifts.
That system must be pretty darn good, if it can identify a person who is using DeCSS just by looking at his face. Or how many photos of DeCSS-criminals are stored in that system to compare them to?
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How did Amelio open the door for Mac clones years before he got hired at Apple?
That's hilarious. Sombody mod it up as funny.
Here's a nice timeline for the development of the PDA, also showing one shipping before the Newton, the Amstrad PenPad.
http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/writing/ccwp10/james /pda_evo_timeline.html
"Does it have a floppy drive?"
And no, just because almost every browser in the world can handle NPIs doesn't make them a standard - just a defacto standard.
As for running the Flash NPI for Linux on OS/2, why would you need to, there is one for OS/2, because it's relatively easy to port NPIs from one platform to the other.
OTOH, I recently read that some guys made ActiveX PIs run on KDE via WINE.
Hey, you! Yes, the one who can't read! Who's talking about the Netscape browser. There are other browser, dontchaknow - who do use Netscape plug-ins. Because those are an open spec.
When IE doesn't support NPIs, while being the majority browser, developers will have to decide if they want to write two plug-ins, one for IE, and one for the rest of all browsers, or just write one for IE.
I case you didn't get it yet, MS is trying to break a working defacto standard of a competitor (that benefits all users) by using their monopoly power. IOW nothing new to be seen here.
Heh, I bet Palm bought Be so Palm won't be bought by Apple, beacause Jobs wouldn't be seen dead with Be.
Yeah, and you wouldn't even need an alarm clock anymore, with the noise they make ;-)
It's Fischertechnik.
So it fell on his lawn off the truck that was supposed to deliver it to Kennedy Space Center?
And a trip to the control center in Moscow. If you had to chose, what would you take?
Anyway, nowhere in the constitution does it say you have the right to walk down any street you want without being monitored and/or checked whether you are a criminal.
4000 euros isn't that much (about $4000) - you can make more winning a local UT match.
Maybe this is the true reason for installing the system, not identifying and catching criminals, but to keep unwanted persons (including criminals and "troublemakers") out of Ybor City?
BTW, here is the online-article from U.S. News (though without the photo) http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010806/usnews/f ace.htm.
If they used the face recognition system to identify him (via his drivers licence photo) to be the man on the newspaper photo - the system obviously worked quite well.
Umpf. I wish it were a crime to be stupid.
Let's see, the woman had a failure rate of 100%. I guess the face recognition system is much better than this. Anyway, why does everybody assume that a positive identification by the system will not be cross-checked by a human immediatly?
Anyway, every time a cop looks at you, he attempts to match you to a criminal face. That's 24/7, every time you walk by that cop. That is his job, that's why they get descriptions and photos of "new" criminals at the beginning of each of their shifts.
That system must be pretty darn good, if it can identify a person who is using DeCSS just by looking at his face. Or how many photos of DeCSS-criminals are stored in that system to compare them to?