Is that everyone knows you are censoring. It only truly works, when ala 1984 everyone is convinced that it isn't happening.
Welcome to the internet China, and Microsoft, claiming you are "just enforcing local laws" is just a bad a defence of the freedoms you enjoy as the traditional "I was just obeying orders defence".
Method and system for displaying and editing of information
Is the TITLE and a couple of beautiful lines from the patent.
10. A method in a computing system for processing an item orders for shipment, comprising:
receiving a first order having a first item and a second item;
determining that the first item has an availability time similar to items in a second order, and that the second item has an availability time similar to items in a third order; and
in response to the determination, adding the first item to the second order and adding the second item to the third order.
11. A computing system for processing an item orders for shipment, comprising:
an order receiver that receives a first order having a first item and a second item;
an availability determination subsystem that determines that the first item has a time-to-inventory similar to items in a second order, and that the second item a time-to-inventory similar to items in a third order; and
an item reallocation subsystem that adds the first item to the second order and adds the second item to the third order in response to the determination by the availability determination subsystem.
12. A method in a computing system for combining item orders for shipment, comprising:
among a set of orders, each order having a destination and one or more items, identifying mutually-exclusive groups of orders such that the orders of each group all have the same destination;
for each group of orders whose items are all available for shipment:
combining the orders of the group, and
scheduling the combined orders of the group for shipment; and for each group of orders whose items are not all available for shipment:
combining the orders of the group, and
scheduling the combined orders of the group for shipment.
Now I'm as ever confused by this. What is this beyond an HTML screen on the sort of package computer system made by folks like Manugistics, SAP, Oracle et al? To me what Amazon have just patented is SAPs ordering and reconciliation processes.... which certainly pre-date Amazon by a mile.
US Patent Office.... its like Dilbert, but with more jokes.
The only problem here is that certain "independent" analysts are commisioned by an organisation (BSA did IDC for Piracy, Microsoft did... err IDC for Windows v Linux) to do "independent" research that just happens to find the answer that was required.
Business Analysts, as we've seen with the Stock Market pushing on Wall Street are about as independent as Texas, they like to claim they are, but the reality is they're after the big buckets of pork.
Compare that with the VIC-20, which cost about $400 in 1981 (with 64k of memory).
The VIC-20, of which I was a proud owner, had a MASSIVE 3.5k of available memory. I even had the daughter board with the big (think 4 DDRs stacked vertically) memory expansions, of 16 and 8K, to give me a RIDICULOUS 27.5K of memory.
64K was the Commodore 64, but that was just excessive, they even brought out a 128K version.
Because Disney isn't about animation anymore, its about Parks, Hotels, T-Shirts and films signed off by the sort of people who next week will sign off the building of a 500 room "luxury" hotel.
Until Disney drives its animation division as a seperate company run by people (business people) who understand that market it will be doomed.
So in other words you take your Mac, that in G4 form probably still works fine with OSX, put in a new motherboard and processor. And now you can use the same BOX as a PC and run Linux.
Not so much an upgrade as using a G4 case, and in terms of an upgrade... So sort of like taking a PDP-11 box, keeping the disc controller and network controller, putting in a Pentium processor, rolling your own Linux and saying "I've upgraded a PDP-11".
NO YOU HAVEN'T because it DOESN'T WORK with the old software.
I would dare try and get my Wife to switch from a Mac onto Linux, that would hugely downgrade my quality of life.
Which may partially explain why the ThinkPad's are, by far, the best laptops around
For you, or the IBM Shareholders?
Lets put it this way, if IBM had upped their prices to the level they needed to in order to make the same money as HP and Dell, would you pay that extra money to get the quality? And would enough people pay that extra to help IBM succeed in a volume business, or would their prices have to rise still further to ensure profits in a niche.
IBM products were good, but too cheap for IBM to make money on it. And their opinion was clearly that technical superiority meant nothing in a market that appears to be dominated by price.
This does raise the question again about what Space exploration is for. With George W stating that its about going to the Moon, then Mars and putting people on planets this is a lesson in how easy it is to put people into Orbit (but how much more expensive to get to the moon, Gemini v Apollo).
With elements like Hubble being decomissioned despite its achievements, and a lack of long range probes being planned the question has to be asked.
Is NASA a marketing campaign for US Military "dominance" of earth and space. Or about futhering Mankind. In the 60s the president gave a target of something that just seemed right (landing on the moon). In the 21st Century the best we aim to achieve is... what JFK wanted us to do in the 60s.
Imagine what MIT, Berkley, Cambridge, Moscow, Paris and a bunch of other top Universities could do in terms of pushing human achievement forwards if they had the budget that NASA gets.
North Korea is known to be actively trying to achieve nuclear weapons.
North Korea is known to have killed thousands, if not millions of its own people thanks to its goverment (predominately famine).
North Korea is run by a complete and utter barking mad nutter.
So nuclear weapons... that puts them up with first world nations from the... 1940s and 50s. They have a rocket that can't even make it to Japan and their leader is much more interested in self-publicity and oppressing his population than almost anything else.
Having 500 "hackers" trying to compromise networks in the west... well they've been SPECTACULARLY successfull haven't they with all the networks they've caused to fail over the last few years.
North Korea is a Bad Country(tm) but lets not believe what South Korea says. We know that North Korea has no RADAR worth talking of as the US have deployed stealth fighters, which means the radar must be 20+ years out of date.
Backward country, backward leader, backward tech. They could build a huge amount (see South Korea) if they just stopped killing their own people, fortunately for all of us (and unfortunately for N Koreans) their leader appears to quite like doing the killing and posturing, more than actually delivering.
Who the hell modded this bugger up? Someone with out a driving license.
Next time you get in the car, have a look at the ENGINE RPM just before the car starts moving, you will notice that it is several THOUSAND RPM, even though the wheels are not moving. There is not a 1:1 ratio gearbox from the engine to the wheels.
I know its for Nerds, but surely we are expected to understand SOMETHING about how mechanical devices work.
Remember on Usenet when a debate was declared dead the moment someone was compared to Hitler or the Nazis?
Welcome to the new Internet, rational debate stops the moment anything gets compared to a terrorist. Its used as a catch all "I think its bad so it must be the worst thing ever".
Bit late in the day to reply. But IIRC the reason why British Airways could only found, and not continue to fund, "GO" a low-cost airline was that cross-subsidy is in violation of WTO regulations.
Sort of like what the Boeing and Airbus debate is about. EU provides "launch funds" to Airbus, US Goverment gives fat defence contracts to Boeing, both are used to subsidise the commercial airline sector.
The US goverment already does this by asking when you enter the country on a little green form
"Are you now or have you ever been a member of a terrorist organisation"
They must catch SO many people
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Or maybe it just shows how little you know about what is being developed where.
The myth that US software developers are so much better than their Indian counterparts is just crap. And the idea that Dell support was any good when it was on shore is just plain baloney. It was rubbish then, now its rubbish and cheaper with a more dodgy accent.
You do know of course that many of the finest mathematicians on the planet are Indian. That senior posts in many technology companies in the US are taken by Indian people, not because they are cheaper but because they are better.
Rather than moaning, and slinging mud, about elements moving to India, wouldn't it be better to ask how come all these "superior" US developers couldn't break a 50% success rate on projects. Not so hot
As a friend of mine said
"We like to pretend that its India thats rubbish, in fact its pretty much everyone".
And the worst lot are the ones who moan that the other guy is crap, while never checking out the fact that they are worse.
I wonder where MSN got the investment budget for this, off Microsoft or via their own investment/R&D programme.
I'm still very unclear why what Microsoft does in taking Office revenues and subsidising other elements doesn't count as cross-subsidy and thus be in violation of WTO rules.
Sitting here in a hotel in North America I've just watched a series of diatribes by the religious right, and I swear that their mouths are bigger than the rest of us.
All depends on how you account the R&D, what has microsoft R&D actually created in comparison with IBM, AT&T (of old), Xerox etc. A whole lot of cash, bugger all actual inovation.
In the last 10 years how many of the "big" inventions have Microsoft created for this budget. Zero, zip, nada, not a single sausage. In the 1970s Xerox managed to invent windowing operating systems, ethernet, laser printers, wirelesss networking (using lasers though) and a whole heap of other things. IBM have done a huge amount with transactional processing, system availability, domaining, messaging, brokerage and lots of other bits.
Microsoft has given us clippy. I don't care how much quantity they have, they have bugger all R&D quality.
Well lets face it IBM. If XBox 360 wins (anyone noticed that you do 360 to end up back in the same place?) then its IBM processors at the core. If its PS3, then its... IBM processors at the core.
All those box numbers, all that volume, all those cheap servers.
XBox or PS3, doesn't matter as Intel lose.
(But please let it be PS3 that wins as its actually innovative rather than a re-hash of off the shelf stuff and (as ever with MS) no R&D).
US invents new robot sport "robotilotocis" that no-one else in the world plays. 5 teams entered from all over the US (Two from California, Two from New York, and one paid for by the tax payers in Washington)... winner declared World Champion.
The OS will integrate Smartphone, Pocket PC, and Pocket PC Phone Edition operating systems into one platform.
That is quite a large functionality footprint, what is the target footprint for this thing? It would also be great if in the new version they could realise that a SmartPHONE is a PHONE first and a PDA second and stop with all the stupid bloody modal windows (volume is MODAL for godsake).
Interesting, but in terms of marketshare its about as relevant as a new release of Mac OSX is to the desktop.
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Is that everyone knows you are censoring. It only truly works, when ala 1984 everyone is convinced that it isn't happening.
Welcome to the internet China, and Microsoft, claiming you are "just enforcing local laws" is just a bad a defence of the freedoms you enjoy as the traditional "I was just obeying orders defence".
Is always worth a search.... my favourite was this one
:)
ip_ftp_pxy.c
Do not change this to sprintf
Anyone think that some "smart" bloke broke this code at some stage
Method and system for displaying and editing of information
Is the TITLE and a couple of beautiful lines from the patent.
10. A method in a computing system for processing an item orders for shipment, comprising:
receiving a first order having a first item and a second item;
determining that the first item has an availability time similar to items in a second order, and that the second item has an availability time similar to items in a third order; and
in response to the determination, adding the first item to the second order and adding the second item to the third order.
11. A computing system for processing an item orders for shipment, comprising:
an order receiver that receives a first order having a first item and a second item;
an availability determination subsystem that determines that the first item has a time-to-inventory similar to items in a second order, and that the second item a time-to-inventory similar to items in a third order; and
an item reallocation subsystem that adds the first item to the second order and adds the second item to the third order in response to the determination by the availability determination subsystem.
12. A method in a computing system for combining item orders for shipment, comprising:
among a set of orders, each order having a destination and one or more items, identifying mutually-exclusive groups of orders such that the orders of each group all have the same destination;
for each group of orders whose items are all available for shipment:
combining the orders of the group, and
scheduling the combined orders of the group for shipment; and for each group of orders whose items are not all available for shipment:
combining the orders of the group, and
scheduling the combined orders of the group for shipment.
Now I'm as ever confused by this. What is this beyond an HTML screen on the sort of package computer system made by folks like Manugistics, SAP, Oracle et al? To me what Amazon have just patented is SAPs ordering and reconciliation processes.... which certainly pre-date Amazon by a mile.
US Patent Office.... its like Dilbert, but with more jokes.
The only problem here is that certain "independent" analysts are commisioned by an organisation (BSA did IDC for Piracy, Microsoft did... err IDC for Windows v Linux) to do "independent" research that just happens to find the answer that was required.
Business Analysts, as we've seen with the Stock Market pushing on Wall Street are about as independent as Texas, they like to claim they are, but the reality is they're after the big buckets of pork.
Compare that with the VIC-20, which cost about $400 in 1981 (with 64k of memory).
The VIC-20, of which I was a proud owner, had a MASSIVE 3.5k of available memory. I even had the daughter board with the big (think 4 DDRs stacked vertically) memory expansions, of 16 and 8K, to give me a RIDICULOUS 27.5K of memory.
64K was the Commodore 64, but that was just excessive, they even brought out a 128K version.
Because Disney isn't about animation anymore, its about Parks, Hotels, T-Shirts and films signed off by the sort of people who next week will sign off the building of a 500 room "luxury" hotel.
Until Disney drives its animation division as a seperate company run by people (business people) who understand that market it will be doomed.
So in other words you take your Mac, that in G4 form probably still works fine with OSX, put in a new motherboard and processor. And now you can use the same BOX as a PC and run Linux.
Not so much an upgrade as using a G4 case, and in terms of an upgrade... So sort of like taking a PDP-11 box, keeping the disc controller and network controller, putting in a Pentium processor, rolling your own Linux and saying "I've upgraded a PDP-11".
NO YOU HAVEN'T because it DOESN'T WORK with the old software.
I would dare try and get my Wife to switch from a Mac onto Linux, that would hugely downgrade my quality of life.
Which may partially explain why the ThinkPad's are, by far, the best laptops around
For you, or the IBM Shareholders?
Lets put it this way, if IBM had upped their prices to the level they needed to in order to make the same money as HP and Dell, would you pay that extra money to get the quality? And would enough people pay that extra to help IBM succeed in a volume business, or would their prices have to rise still further to ensure profits in a niche.
IBM products were good, but too cheap for IBM to make money on it. And their opinion was clearly that technical superiority meant nothing in a market that appears to be dominated by price.
The market says the cheapest laptop is the best.
This does raise the question again about what Space exploration is for. With George W stating that its about going to the Moon, then Mars and putting people on planets this is a lesson in how easy it is to put people into Orbit (but how much more expensive to get to the moon, Gemini v Apollo).
With elements like Hubble being decomissioned despite its achievements, and a lack of long range probes being planned the question has to be asked.
Is NASA a marketing campaign for US Military "dominance" of earth and space. Or about futhering Mankind. In the 60s the president gave a target of something that just seemed right (landing on the moon). In the 21st Century the best we aim to achieve is... what JFK wanted us to do in the 60s.
Imagine what MIT, Berkley, Cambridge, Moscow, Paris and a bunch of other top Universities could do in terms of pushing human achievement forwards if they had the budget that NASA gets.
under the high Martian UV flux if water and nutrient requirements for growth were met.
These appear to be pretty large caveats on feasibility.
Sort of like saying (ala Dan Quayle) that people can survive as long as there is water, an atmosphere and enough food.
North Korea is known to be actively trying to achieve nuclear weapons.
North Korea is known to have killed thousands, if not millions of its own people thanks to its goverment (predominately famine).
North Korea is run by a complete and utter barking mad nutter.
So nuclear weapons... that puts them up with first world nations from the... 1940s and 50s. They have a rocket that can't even make it to Japan and their leader is much more interested in self-publicity and oppressing his population than almost anything else.
Having 500 "hackers" trying to compromise networks in the west... well they've been SPECTACULARLY successfull haven't they with all the networks they've caused to fail over the last few years.
North Korea is a Bad Country(tm) but lets not believe what South Korea says. We know that North Korea has no RADAR worth talking of as the US have deployed stealth fighters, which means the radar must be 20+ years out of date.
Backward country, backward leader, backward tech. They could build a huge amount (see South Korea) if they just stopped killing their own people, fortunately for all of us (and unfortunately for N Koreans) their leader appears to quite like doing the killing and posturing, more than actually delivering.
You mean everyone doesn't have a Ferrari?
Who the hell modded this bugger up? Someone with out a driving license.
Next time you get in the car, have a look at the ENGINE RPM just before the car starts moving, you will notice that it is several THOUSAND RPM, even though the wheels are not moving. There is not a 1:1 ratio gearbox from the engine to the wheels.
I know its for Nerds, but surely we are expected to understand SOMETHING about how mechanical devices work.
Remember on Usenet when a debate was declared dead the moment someone was compared to Hitler or the Nazis?
Welcome to the new Internet, rational debate stops the moment anything gets compared to a terrorist. Its used as a catch all "I think its bad so it must be the worst thing ever".
Bit late in the day to reply. But IIRC the reason why British Airways could only found, and not continue to fund, "GO" a low-cost airline was that cross-subsidy is in violation of WTO regulations.
Sort of like what the Boeing and Airbus debate is about. EU provides "launch funds" to Airbus, US Goverment gives fat defence contracts to Boeing, both are used to subsidise the commercial airline sector.
The US goverment already does this by asking when you enter the country on a little green form
"Are you now or have you ever been a member of a terrorist organisation"
They must catch SO many people
Or maybe it just shows how little you know about what is being developed where.
The myth that US software developers are so much better than their Indian counterparts is just crap. And the idea that Dell support was any good when it was on shore is just plain baloney. It was rubbish then, now its rubbish and cheaper with a more dodgy accent.
You do know of course that many of the finest mathematicians on the planet are Indian. That senior posts in many technology companies in the US are taken by Indian people, not because they are cheaper but because they are better.
Rather than moaning, and slinging mud, about elements moving to India, wouldn't it be better to ask how come all these "superior" US developers couldn't break a 50% success rate on projects. Not so hot
As a friend of mine said
"We like to pretend that its India thats rubbish, in fact its pretty much everyone".
And the worst lot are the ones who moan that the other guy is crap, while never checking out the fact that they are worse.
Google maps is already available in the UK. Given this isn't a real product, doesn't have a release date.
What will Google be doing by the time Microsoft catches up with what they did last year?
I wonder where MSN got the investment budget for this, off Microsoft or via their own investment/R&D programme.
I'm still very unclear why what Microsoft does in taking Office revenues and subsidising other elements doesn't count as cross-subsidy and thus be in violation of WTO rules.
Anyone else have a clue?
Sitting here in a hotel in North America I've just watched a series of diatribes by the religious right, and I swear that their mouths are bigger than the rest of us.
All depends on how you account the R&D, what has microsoft R&D actually created in comparison with IBM, AT&T (of old), Xerox etc. A whole lot of cash, bugger all actual inovation.
In the last 10 years how many of the "big" inventions have Microsoft created for this budget. Zero, zip, nada, not a single sausage. In the 1970s Xerox managed to invent windowing operating systems, ethernet, laser printers, wirelesss networking (using lasers though) and a whole heap of other things. IBM have done a huge amount with transactional processing, system availability, domaining, messaging, brokerage and lots of other bits.
Microsoft has given us clippy. I don't care how much quantity they have, they have bugger all R&D quality.
Well lets face it IBM. If XBox 360 wins (anyone noticed that you do 360 to end up back in the same place?) then its IBM processors at the core. If its PS3, then its... IBM processors at the core.
All those box numbers, all that volume, all those cheap servers.
XBox or PS3, doesn't matter as Intel lose.
(But please let it be PS3 that wins as its actually innovative rather than a re-hash of off the shelf stuff and (as ever with MS) no R&D).
The number of programmers in the US is down 25% since 2000
Possibly true, but the number of Software Engineers (who are still in demand) has remained constant.
This is part of the message, stand out from the crowd and be GOOD at what you do.
News just in.
US invents new robot sport "robotilotocis" that no-one else in the world plays. 5 teams entered from all over the US (Two from California, Two from New York, and one paid for by the tax payers in Washington)... winner declared World Champion.
The OS will integrate Smartphone, Pocket PC, and Pocket PC Phone Edition operating systems into one platform.
That is quite a large functionality footprint, what is the target footprint for this thing? It would also be great if in the new version they could realise that a SmartPHONE is a PHONE first and a PDA second and stop with all the stupid bloody modal windows (volume is MODAL for godsake).
Interesting, but in terms of marketshare its about as relevant as a new release of Mac OSX is to the desktop.