"British courts making it illegal to tell anyone that some servant saw Prince Charles and another man doing the nasty (whoops, now Slashdot will have to be banned in the UK!)"
How about the fact that due to its cooperative, non-pre-emptive model makes it ill-suited for running more than one application simultaneously (foreground app gets all the resources) and as a result, the only way to run a single server that can do what other server OS's do (ie run a web server, dns services, email services, etc..) is to build it as one huge monolithic application which ultimately adds extensive complexity due to the barebones nature of the OS (under the GUI of course.:)
You never did really use macOS, right? Sure, old mac multitasking was primitive (choosing from a menu freezed the app until the mouse button was released. for instance) but there were no problems in running multiple servers/clients, Open transport was robust. Crashes requiring reset on mac OS 8.6, were exceptional (in most of the cases alt-apple-esc got you to a monitor which could relaunch the desktop). I experienced more frequent , nasty crashes in win 98-2000 for sure.
One real weakness imho was memory management requiring people to buy more ram than really needed, not multitasking.
There's the python-based, db-independent work done by Gnu Enterprise and its small business section Gnue Small Business. Applications and docs are at a very early stage, the RAD tools seem to work.
Fighting spam on a purely technical perspective (authentication and rejection of unsolicited messages) is indeed very similar to competition in the natural world.
However, from a different point of view, spammers have a vulnerability: customers must have a way to buy the advertised "product", which makes it traceable. This make spamming very different from most other kind of crimes, so i hope this outstanding peculiarity won't be overlooked when the governments decide it's about time to do something about spam.
... but the overall image of HP should get advantage of this initiative.
I also think that HP doesn't start a campaign like this without being convinced that SCO claims have no ground. I wonder if they discovered something we don't know...
Besides that, a patent should only be awarded for a process or design that is non-obvious. The test for that is supposed to be a committee of highly credentialed people in the field to agree that its non-obvious.
Maybe one could even demonstrate that an algorithm is obvious:
One could submit to a group of programmers the problem that a proposed patent is going to solve.
- If they can outline or even implement the very same solution to the problem, the patent is rejected because it's obvious.
- If they come up with a different solution, the patent can be assigned but the equivalent solution becomes unpatentable, because it's obvious. So if the patented solution has some peculiarities, the inventor can make the deserved money out of it, without posing a great danger, there is a free alternative.
- If they can't come up with a solution, the problem can be submitted to the committee of "gurus" (this way they are employed only when really needed): no solution, the patent is awarded.
My computer is an Athlon 875mhz with 512mb of ram & 7200rpm hdd - this should be fine as a desktop computer for a long time in theory, but WinXP from 2001 would run slowly on it, and Linux distros run like a dog on it. I know there is custom compiling and the like, but I can't be bothered and it shouldn't be needed anyway.
Mine is a 166mhz ppc 604 with 96mb of ram, i never bothered to recompile the kernel yet (so i have drivers for PMU IDE USB and so on, which my machine doesn't need): the bloat hasn't prevented me to run debian unstable without big problems. As mac OSX is instructed not to boot on my machine, and OS9 has slower networking and limited multitasking capabilities, Linux seems a very good choice for low-end machines. If you want responsiveness, use the linux console:)
i run Debian unstable with gnome 2, AA fonts look as good as the website examples. Some fonts look too thin on dark background. Bitstream Vera is very nice.
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Yes, the resulting name won't be a name in the dictionary...
:)
Ap'ka
Kaj
Soc
Owkuci
Skes
Ravi
Aefreoreo
Stink Bestrau
Uprit
Sciwkiv
Mig
Eaglu
Oeni
Pefug
Uphu
Fugrok
Fek
Auta
Leliow
I guess it doesn't check against a dictionary
The other Steve-o denies any involvement with Microsoft and announces a lawsuit to protect his business.
"British courts making it illegal to tell anyone that some servant saw Prince Charles and another man doing the nasty (whoops, now Slashdot will have to be banned in the UK!)"
Not if you say that his name is "Camilla".
How about the fact that due to its cooperative, non-pre-emptive model makes it ill-suited for running more than one application simultaneously (foreground app gets all the resources) and as a result, the only way to run a single server that can do what other server OS's do (ie run a web server, dns services, email services, etc..) is to build it as one huge monolithic application which ultimately adds extensive complexity due to the barebones nature of the OS (under the GUI of course. :)
You never did really use macOS, right? Sure, old mac multitasking was primitive (choosing from a menu freezed the app until the mouse button was released. for instance) but there were no problems in running multiple servers/clients, Open transport was robust. Crashes requiring reset on mac OS 8.6, were exceptional (in most of the cases alt-apple-esc got you to a monitor which could relaunch the desktop). I experienced more frequent , nasty crashes in win 98-2000 for sure.
One real weakness imho was memory management requiring people to buy more ram than really needed, not multitasking.
There's the python-based, db-independent work done by Gnu Enterprise and its small business section Gnue Small Business. Applications and docs are at a very early stage, the RAD tools seem to work.
Fighting spam on a purely technical perspective (authentication and rejection of unsolicited messages) is indeed very similar to competition in the natural world. However, from a different point of view, spammers have a vulnerability: customers must have a way to buy the advertised "product", which makes it traceable. This make spamming very different from most other kind of crimes, so i hope this outstanding peculiarity won't be overlooked when the governments decide it's about time to do something about spam.
... but the overall image of HP should get advantage of this initiative.
I also think that HP doesn't start a campaign like this without being convinced that SCO claims have no ground. I wonder if they discovered something we don't know...
Replace my Windows with Linux? They can pry it from my cold, dead fingers...
Easy, Mr. Gates, easy...
It was in 77. I have heard of a "kim" model which was the first commodore ever, too.t .htm
http://www.commodore.ca/products/pet/commodore_pe
Besides that, a patent should only be awarded for a process or design that is non-obvious. The test for that is supposed to be a committee of highly credentialed people in the field to agree that its non-obvious.
Maybe one could even demonstrate that an algorithm is obvious:
One could submit to a group of programmers the problem that a proposed patent is going to solve.
- If they can outline or even implement the very same solution to the problem, the patent is rejected because it's obvious.
- If they come up with a different solution, the patent can be assigned but the equivalent solution becomes unpatentable, because it's obvious. So if the patented solution has some peculiarities, the inventor can make the deserved money out of it, without posing a great danger, there is a free alternative.
- If they can't come up with a solution, the problem can be submitted to the committee of "gurus" (this way they are employed only when really needed): no solution, the patent is awarded.
...don't buy anything advertised to you by spammers.
My computer is an Athlon 875mhz with 512mb of ram & 7200rpm hdd - this should be fine as a desktop computer for a long time in theory, but WinXP from 2001 would run slowly on it, and Linux distros run like a dog on it. I know there is custom compiling and the like, but I can't be bothered and it shouldn't be needed anyway.
:)
Mine is a 166mhz ppc 604 with 96mb of ram, i never bothered to recompile the kernel yet (so i have drivers for PMU IDE USB and so on, which my machine doesn't need): the bloat hasn't prevented me to run debian unstable without big problems. As mac OSX is instructed not to boot on my machine, and OS9 has slower networking and limited multitasking capabilities, Linux seems a very good choice for low-end machines. If you want responsiveness, use the linux console
i run Debian unstable with gnome 2, AA fonts look as good as the website examples. Some fonts look too thin on dark background. Bitstream Vera is very nice.
Great choice for an example: Bell wasn't the first to invent the telephone, and the case ended up in court.