They were apart from the comms protocol, which was a pile of poo.
IF YOU GOT A COMMS ERROR, THE ONLY RECOVERY MECHANISM WAS A TOTAL SYSTEM REBOOT.
That is as crap as you can get! TPP/IP might be an improvement, but HDLC would have
cracked the Transputer's problems, and it was already over 15 years old when the transputer was invented.
Yes I did build a Transputer based system, and yes it did work. (but...)
I live in the UK, and I can confirm we are much more terrified of our government than of Al Quaida.
Our own police kill a lot more people than Al Quaida, and are a lot less incompetent in other ways as well. Further more, we are terrorised on a daily basis by over sealous enforement of traffic regulations, and excessive fines.
The fact that nobody else thought of it before is evidence that it is not obvious, so you'd better have a good reason for saying it is obvious.The fact that its so obvious that no one else tried to patent it does not mean that no one thought of trying to patent it before the first application. The fact that USPTO officials cannot think of things for themselves is not proof of anything either.
If its well known that keeping butter cold preserves it, and well known that putting things in fridges keeps them cold, then putting butter in a fridge to preserve it should not be patentable. This ruling appears to mean that, if you were to apply for a patent on preserving butter by putting it in a fridge, then this would not be refused because its obvious (might be prior art, though).
Once its not free, its not going to be very popular. Never mind speed, or any other feature. As for the C#, Mono people: some people just dont like to put their neck in a noose. call it superstition if you like, but I call it being over 21.
They got serious high-end mainframe competition by IBM mainframes with DB2, strong hardware competition from Intel and AMD and strong software competition from Linux.
Yes, those of us that do financial transactiopns on postgresql/OpenBSD/sparc64 are hard at work planning a migration path, cos remaining with sparc64 looks very risky, and most of us have already tried Oracle, thats why we are not using it now.
with an MS man at the top I fear for the future of Meego on Nokia phones
Dont worry, with an MS guy at the top, Nokia has no future anyway. They had already lost the plot, with a whole bunch of phones, none targeted. The lack
of a N900 successor, and third party Meego devices means Meego is already a dead duck. Buy an HTC Desire, install LeeDroid on it, and love it
Sure you have to root it, but you are a nerd, and rooting is just a step to keep the plebs down.
The problems in Europe are not due to the social problems. They are due to the fact that, without external control, forex trading and derivatives tradings become Ponzi schemes. They suck in all the capital that would otherwise fund farming and manufacturing, and constructing the country's infrastructure.
Since there was no capital left after the last fiasco, the social programs (which the vast majority support) are being raided to provide more capital so the Ponzi schemes can continue to benefit the few.
Had it not been for the Ponzi scemes, the social programs were sustainable despite being very badly managed in some cases.
Do not confuse social programs with "jobs for the boys" schemes, where huge numbers of people are employed in pointless jobs by left wing governments to create dependents who will vote them back in (Like Blair did in the UK, and Mugabe does in Zimbabwe).
So, assuming the two populations are kind of similar genetically speakingIt is probably very hard to justify that statement. A couple of hours travel would demonstate that the genetic basis of London (25% mixed race) is a lot different from Leicester (25% south Asian) or Glasgow (25% highland Scots).
Caveat: all statistics were fabricated from used banana skins).
The numbers are badly skewed by the fact that what happens earlier is highly significant.
Consider a previous study (in the 1980's I believe). It showed that Electronic Engineers in the US were far more likely than others to die in their 40's of exposure to PCBs. This lead to panic about Poly Chlorinated Biphenys, which are used in transformers.
Once the panic settled down, it was discovered that polychlorinated biphenyls are only used in power distribution transformers (ie in substations), whihc most EEs are never exposed to at all. However, almost all EEs were exposed to Printed Circuit Boards. Statistical analyists were not exposed to neither, and could not the difference between a liquid and a solid. The reason for the discrepancy in the death rate was that EEs lived much longer than their peers because they were not sent to Vietnam, and were much more likely to die of health problems in the 40's because their peers died of gunshot wounds at the atge of ne-ne-ne--nineteen.
Moral: Trust statistics only after you personally have discovered how far you can throw them. (Chucking them into a WPB is a well proven strategy).
Unix was designed with security in mind, maybe not to today's requirements, but in 1970, you knew damn well that machines were multi-user, and users tasks had to be protected agaist each other. Real world experience at the time was not of people deliberately hacking others' stuff, but of a large percentage of programs being written in assembler, and having the ability to trash things at low level in the event of fairly trivial typing errors.
Hardware separation of users; activities, and management thereof were essential if any system was going to work at all.
Not long after 1970, and certainly before 1980, Unix was being used in a college envirnment, where students were known to try anything. (You did not get sent to Gitmo for making bombs in those days). It was soon discovered that grades were prone to vary if computer security was not good. (Not to mention private details of lecturers).
I first encountered Unix in 1978. Yes I do use OpenBSD for public facing internet machines handling financial transations at this very moment (not with this IP address though). No, I do not plan to switch to SE Linux any time soon.
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IF YOU GOT A COMMS ERROR, THE ONLY RECOVERY MECHANISM WAS A TOTAL SYSTEM REBOOT.
That is as crap as you can get! TPP/IP might be an improvement, but HDLC would have cracked the Transputer's problems, and it was already over 15 years old when the transputer was invented.
Yes I did build a Transputer based system, and yes it did work. (but...)
I hope you are wearing a kevlar swimsuit! (and Cuban Heel PHP boots)
Perhaps you should go and live in Switzerland. There is no crime ins Switzerland because "Im der Schweitz, das crime is verboten!"
mod parent up, up, up
How successful/important is 415 million mobile phones in 3 months?
You can put your server where the SUN don't shine. (Not much sun shines in my server room either). Phones is where the money is.
Oh, wait ...
Our own police kill a lot more people than Al Quaida, and are a lot less incompetent in other ways as well. Further more, we are terrorised on a daily basis by over sealous enforement of traffic regulations, and excessive fines.
If its well known that keeping butter cold preserves it, and well known that putting things in fridges keeps them cold, then putting butter in a fridge to preserve it should not be patentable. This ruling appears to mean that, if you were to apply for a patent on preserving butter by putting it in a fridge, then this would not be refused because its obvious (might be prior art, though).
I know stupid when I see it, and this is it!
You must be new here.
Well, D'oh. Java is popular Because its free.
Once its not free, its not going to be very popular. Never mind speed, or any other feature. As for the C#, Mono people: some people just dont like to put their neck in a noose. call it superstition if you like, but I call it being over 21.
Mod parent +infinity: he's got it!
Yes, those of us that do financial transactiopns on postgresql/OpenBSD/sparc64 are hard at work planning a migration path, cos remaining with sparc64 looks very risky, and most of us have already tried Oracle, thats why we are not using it now.
Dont worry, with an MS guy at the top, Nokia has no future anyway. They had already lost the plot, with a whole bunch of phones, none targeted. The lack of a N900 successor, and third party Meego devices means Meego is already a dead duck. Buy an HTC Desire, install LeeDroid on it, and love it Sure you have to root it, but you are a nerd, and rooting is just a step to keep the plebs down.
Since there was no capital left after the last fiasco, the social programs (which the vast majority support) are being raided to provide more capital so the Ponzi schemes can continue to benefit the few.
Had it not been for the Ponzi scemes, the social programs were sustainable despite being very badly managed in some cases.
Do not confuse social programs with "jobs for the boys" schemes, where huge numbers of people are employed in pointless jobs by left wing governments to create dependents who will vote them back in (Like Blair did in the UK, and Mugabe does in Zimbabwe).
As a Nigerian, I am deeply jelous of your corruption!
Caveat: all statistics were fabricated from used banana skins).
The numbers are badly skewed by the fact that what happens earlier is highly significant.
Consider a previous study (in the 1980's I believe). It showed that Electronic Engineers in the US were far more likely than others to die in their 40's of exposure to PCBs. This lead to panic about Poly Chlorinated Biphenys, which are used in transformers.
Once the panic settled down, it was discovered that polychlorinated biphenyls are only used in power distribution transformers (ie in substations), whihc most EEs are never exposed to at all. However, almost all EEs were exposed to Printed Circuit Boards. Statistical analyists were not exposed to neither, and could not the difference between a liquid and a solid. The reason for the discrepancy in the death rate was that EEs lived much longer than their peers because they were not sent to Vietnam, and were much more likely to die of health problems in the 40's because their peers died of gunshot wounds at the atge of ne-ne-ne--nineteen.
Moral: Trust statistics only after you personally have discovered how far you can throw them. (Chucking them into a WPB is a well proven strategy).
Thats how the problem starts, and its all downhill from there (in the snow, both ways, with no shoes).
They are not less authentically American, just less authentically beer
There, thats fixed it for you. (There is no limit to the stupidity and bungling ineptitude of British Governments).
There, thats fixed it for you.
Fantasies of "Take this plane to cuba, or I'll watch a movie!"
Not long after 1970, and certainly before 1980, Unix was being used in a college envirnment, where students were known to try anything. (You did not get sent to Gitmo for making bombs in those days). It was soon discovered that grades were prone to vary if computer security was not good. (Not to mention private details of lecturers).
I first encountered Unix in 1978. Yes I do use OpenBSD for public facing internet machines handling financial transations at this very moment (not with this IP address though). No, I do not plan to switch to SE Linux any time soon.
This was writetn using Opera on Ubuntu.
It just so happens my grandfather invented an engine that was powered by horse poop, but unfortunately just too late for it to rule the world!
It will be the most famous escapologist ever, and accompanied by "The Great Vegetable Squeek" for all its more important gigs