so it'll only cost me a few hours and $5mil to establish prior art on "a circular frame of strong lightweight composite material, reinforce[d] with radial spokes and... a hole in the centre that can accommodate a shaft or axle"
If you weren't overworked doing 5-200 patents a day, these things might not slip thru.
Nah, long haul truckers will register in the state with the lowest road taxes. Rhode Island, for instance, will be to trucks what Liberia and Luxembourg are to cargo ships.
Besides, shouldn't all that stuff go on rail anyway?
The state may well be in a spiral but at the bottom of the spiral is a state free of smokers. Eventually the state will have to deal with the loss of revenue but by then they'll actually be seeing benefits from reduced health care, etc.
When they do have to deal with it, they'll be able to use all the usual of means of raising revenue. Indeed they might not need to do anything: by then the economy may have fixed itself.
If it hasn't then they would do well to implement some form of road tax. I have to pay them for my little diesel (4 door not 4x4) but fortunately I don't have to be GPS tracked for that.
Revenues from fuel taxes will taper off (particularly if Maine taxes gas like cigs) so they'll need an alternative to pay for the roads. Just make sure they don't get obsessive about detail and do factor vehicle weight into it.
We recently updated our Oracle Financials and moved to the funky new interface. It's a java applet so theoretically it'll work just fine. That should cover your major accounting package. I admit I haven't tried it on my iBook but I think I just might...
This is a just another false dichotomy: there is something that will do the trick out there for all platforms. Get over it, move along, find something significant to worry about.
Natural consequence of monopoly unfortunately and one of the reason they're so dangerous. There is no need for them to be good so they aren't. What really matters in a monopoly is maintaining your job for life, not actually doing anything. They also accumulate crud as smart people, like yourself, have better things to do with their time.
On another topic, Gates is living in a dream world. In ten years, there will be Linux, Symbian, and Mac OS XI. People will be saying "Microsoft what, Microsoft who?" Linux has got traction, the mobiles have rejected MS, and Apple is revitalised and being imaginative again.
MS is losing credibilty, losing friends in high places, and people who shouldn't know anything about computers are appalled at the consequences of using Windows.
At this point, I would like everyone to rush off and contribute to an open-source project to finish them off.
The problem is that cars take up too much room. Imagine kids playing on the street today. Now imagine them playing after flying cars have become de riguer.
This is also shown by the need for expensive to built AND maintain multilane highways. With a third dimension to work with, this problem should disappear.
I find the suggestion that it easier/cheaper to build an underground railway than get everyone to fly to work comical. Even if this were true for say London or New York, what about cities like New Zealand's largest, Auckland, which is riddled with hard rock.
Go on, get a flying car and make me safer on my bike.
Agreed, functional programming is much better but most of those languages have overloading.
The reasoning for the ban is well founded but actually undermined by aString + anotherString. In reality it was probably the limitations of the typing system that prevented them from doing it. Since there seems to be a move on to fix that, overloading might become possible.
Apple's keyboard options for Universal Access stuff are excellent. I don't have any trouble with typing but I still use them. I like it so much I even checked out the MS version at work. Naturally it sucked terribly.
Apple put a big translucent symbol in the top right of the screen, big enough to see easily on the largest screen. When it's locked on it's not translucent. One tap of the shift/ctrl/option/command key holds it down for one character (not including other modifiers), 2 taps locks it down until you tap it again.
Very cool, and removes all finger crippling combos. Wanna do a Spanish style upside-down question mark? 1 2 3, option, shift,/.
The strange thing is, alt on the PC has similar behaviour and I hate it. Because I can turn it on for all modifier keys, it seems much more natural.
I've been waiting for months to say this in an appropriate forum, thank you for the opportunity.
A short story of your's dealing with organ transplants and crime affected me deeply years ago. Recently I have heard that China re-uses the organs of convicted criminals in a suspiciously similar way. Do you fear that your warning(s) is insufficient? Are other predictions in danger of eventuating?
Thanks for the stories and ideas, in particular the Protectors.
Doddle is perfectly normal even for us colonials in New Zealand. That thar Yankee dog should get hisself a proper vocabulary, and get over the differences in dialect.
Now if you were Glaswegian, that would be a problem:)
Actually Apple use tabs a lot in OS X. In particular many Prefenrce Panes have Tabs. The diffenrence though is that these tabs are hardcoded subpanels. Apple doesn't use user created windows in the same way. You are right in the similarity tabs and an MDI. However this an MDI that actually makes sense. It even extends the file/folder metaphor in an appropriate way.
I hated microsofts MDI for years but Tabbed browsing is the best UI innovation I've seen in years.
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so it'll only cost me a few hours and $5mil to establish prior art on "a circular frame of strong lightweight composite material, reinforce[d] with radial spokes and ... a hole in the centre that can accommodate a shaft or axle"
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If you weren't overworked doing 5-200 patents a day, these things might not slip thru.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg186
The patent mentioned was issued in Australia, a small island nation west of california, but it was inspired by the current issues with the USPTO.
It's still hideous reasoning. Taxing people for not commiting suicide is daft.
That's just hideous reasoning.
And besides, they generate a lot of extra tax revenue before they become old and ailing.
Still I'll grant my reasoning works better in a "humane society" (eg here in New Zealand) than a capitalist one.
Nah, long haul truckers will register in the state with the lowest road taxes. Rhode Island, for instance, will be to trucks what Liberia and Luxembourg are to cargo ships.
Besides, shouldn't all that stuff go on rail anyway?
So how is this a problem?
The state may well be in a spiral but at the bottom of the spiral is a state free of smokers. Eventually the state will have to deal with the loss of revenue but by then they'll actually be seeing benefits from reduced health care, etc.
When they do have to deal with it, they'll be able to use all the usual of means of raising revenue. Indeed they might not need to do anything: by then the economy may have fixed itself.
If it hasn't then they would do well to implement some form of road tax. I have to pay them for my little diesel (4 door not 4x4) but fortunately I don't have to be GPS tracked for that.
Revenues from fuel taxes will taper off (particularly if Maine taxes gas like cigs) so they'll need an alternative to pay for the roads. Just make sure they don't get obsessive about detail and do factor vehicle weight into it.
I certainly use it the other way around. Cron + Applescript + iTunes makes an excellent alarm clock.
Conversely cron+AppleScript+Speech means my iBook can tell me to stop coding and get some sleep late at night.
Ye Gods America, who is running your elections? The lawyers or the TV networks?
I, for one, welcome our new iPod masters...
We recently updated our Oracle Financials and moved to the funky new interface. It's a java applet so theoretically it'll work just fine. That should cover your major accounting package. I admit I haven't tried it on my iBook but I think I just might...
This is a just another false dichotomy: there is something that will do the trick out there for all platforms. Get over it, move along, find something significant to worry about.
Natural consequence of monopoly unfortunately and one of the reason they're so dangerous. There is no need for them to be good so they aren't. What really matters in a monopoly is maintaining your job for life, not actually doing anything. They also accumulate crud as smart people, like yourself, have better things to do with their time.
On another topic, Gates is living in a dream world. In ten years, there will be Linux, Symbian, and Mac OS XI. People will be saying "Microsoft what, Microsoft who?" Linux has got traction, the mobiles have rejected MS, and Apple is revitalised and being imaginative again.
MS is losing credibilty, losing friends in high places, and people who shouldn't know anything about computers are appalled at the consequences of using Windows.
At this point, I would like everyone to rush off and contribute to an open-source project to finish them off.
The problem is that cars take up too much room. Imagine kids playing on the street today. Now imagine them playing after flying cars have become de riguer.
This is also shown by the need for expensive to built AND maintain multilane highways. With a third dimension to work with, this problem should disappear.
I find the suggestion that it easier/cheaper to build an underground railway than get everyone to fly to work comical. Even if this were true for say London or New York, what about cities like New Zealand's largest, Auckland, which is riddled with hard rock.
Go on, get a flying car and make me safer on my bike.
Agreed, functional programming is much better but most of those languages have overloading.
The reasoning for the ban is well founded but actually undermined by aString + anotherString. In reality it was probably the limitations of the typing system that prevented them from doing it. Since there seems to be a move on to fix that, overloading might become possible.
Well he is Mexico where they have changed party once in 70+ years, IIRC.
When Ashcroft getting one? We REALLY want to know where he is all the time...
With Longhorn having been dubbed Longhaul by the Register for stretching even Microsoft's flexible definition of a deadline, how is this important?
.net before they can get anything useful out of it.
Probably a very nice idea, badly implemented like VB, and will be overtaken like
My impression is that MS will be dead (like IBM is dead) by the time Longhaul ships. If it ships.
Apple's keyboard options for Universal Access stuff are excellent. I don't have any trouble with typing but I still use them. I like it so much I even checked out the MS version at work. Naturally it sucked terribly.
/.
Apple put a big translucent symbol in the top right of the screen, big enough to see easily on the largest screen. When it's locked on it's not translucent. One tap of the shift/ctrl/option/command key holds it down for one character (not including other modifiers), 2 taps locks it down until you tap it again.
Very cool, and removes all finger crippling combos. Wanna do a Spanish style upside-down question mark? 1 2 3, option, shift,
The strange thing is, alt on the PC has similar behaviour and I hate it. Because I can turn it on for all modifier keys, it seems much more natural.
I've been waiting for months to say this in an appropriate forum, thank you for the opportunity.
A short story of your's dealing with organ transplants and crime affected me deeply years ago. Recently I have heard that China re-uses the organs of convicted criminals in a suspiciously similar way. Do you fear that your warning(s) is insufficient? Are other predictions in danger of eventuating?
Thanks for the stories and ideas, in particular the Protectors.
Doddle is perfectly normal even for us colonials in New Zealand. That thar Yankee dog should get hisself a proper vocabulary, and get over the differences in dialect.
:)
Now if you were Glaswegian, that would be a problem
Actually Apple use tabs a lot in OS X. In particular many Prefenrce Panes have Tabs. The diffenrence though is that these tabs are hardcoded subpanels. Apple doesn't use user created windows in the same way. You are right in the similarity tabs and an MDI. However this an MDI that actually makes sense. It even extends the file/folder metaphor in an appropriate way.
I hated microsofts MDI for years but Tabbed browsing is the best UI innovation I've seen in years.