Yeah, reading this, I know for a fact the functionality described by 135 existed prior to 98. For starters, tokenRing could probably knock out everything after claim 9 out as prior art. Just adding "secure" to it doesn't make it novel or new. The claims describe nothing that did not exist prior to Oct 98 (which is the earliest date on any of the patents in question) As for the other 3, it just boggles my mind that someone approved those. Aren't patent examiners supposed to be "experts" in the field in question? It's almost like they outsourced these to a group of 6th graders.
You do realize that's virtually impossible, as the fonts on a HP LaserJet II vs a LaserJet IV or a Xerox were actually different for a given font? Yes, read that again, the damn fonts as rendered by each printer was physically different in output, even within a single manufacturer's line. Not sure why anymore, just that they were. So what Ami Pro likely did based on your discussion was the quick and dirty rendering as you were typing (windows crap) and then a proper rendering replacing it afterwards using its own rendering engine. (Note: I only used AmiPro on OS/2 where this wasn't an issue since OS/2 didn't do something this stupid) But any software that rendered to PS bypassed this windows nonsense, which was the way we got around a host of problems printing on Windows.
Most of the time, you're incorrect. Speech to text is pretty accurate and way better than "auto correct" guessing what I meant to type.
You just have to use it to find the right cadence and enunciation.
I guess if you can't touch type, that's true, even on a phone. I find I can type faster than auto-correct or speech to text. In fact, speech to text is almost as bad as auto-correct in figuring out what I want to type on any given line.
The real problem with "silly laws" is that, in the past at least, they weren't.
I have to completely disagree with you There are laws there that were always silly, although some person with mental issues probably thought they weren't. e.g.:
If a child burps during church, his parent may be arrested.
Might as well write a law against cows passing gas or jailing the farmer.
Probably because my internal wifi is relatively locked down to known MACs, etc. Yes, stuff can be spoofed, but I just don't have that level of paranoia. If it came down to that, I think I'd have bigger issues to worry about. However, that said, the number of devices in my house on wireless is less than a handful. almost everything is hard-wired.
The other end of my connection is 100/100 minimum with low latency to the backbone, so the small additional latency over the whatever wifi connection to begin with normally isn't an issue.
To be honest, I don't get this. Who cares if a network operator, or the person sitting next to you at a cafe next to you is snooping your data?
Because, for starters, you get around the whole MITM should any of this be compromised. Furthermore, as I use keys, the entire process is relatively secure and more importantly, it's transparent and easy to use. Finally, there are things you do that may or may not be across secure links, and I'm perfectly find with everything being guaranteed to be at least secure to a known connection.
Running your own SSH tunnel for all communications is pretty standard when connecting anywhere. If it's not your wifi, it's not secure. That should be a mantra for everyone.
Actually, Word Perfect was better at WYSIWYG than any MS product ever will be, because you don't see what you get at all with MS Office products. This was the critical failure of Word, especially, since it used printer drivers to render documents, and those drivers would render a document differently depending upon supported fonts and other typesetting differences. I especially loved printing out my 60 page document on an HP LaserJet II and then getting 63 pages on a LaserJet III. WYSIWYG my ass.
Umm, home automation is fine, but you shouldn't be relying on porous security like that offered by Alexa, Google, Siri, etc. They're all effectively backdoors into your home. If that means that there's no way to turn on your AC from the office, well, there's no way for anyone else to either.
I think people want certain things to fail, like Windows specifically. You are correct that MS is highly diversified. They have solid revenue streams outside of windows. The OS and office appear to be holding steady currently, but that can primarily be attributed to increased milking of existing customers by moving them to subscription models. There is little growth in these areas to speak of, and they would be declining if it wasn't for these efforts. Office is being forced to be more open and less proprietary due to the number of non MS devices in use that need to be able to at least view those documents. Their mobile solution has completely failed, fortunately IMHO. The XBone, while providing what anyone would consider a healthy revenue, has failed to meet expectations for this release.
Are they failing like Sony? Obviously not. But they're not owning the market like they used to. This is a good thing, honestly.
Oh be honest. The models aren't "wrong" in the sense that they predicted a rise and there was a fall, they're only "wrong" in that they didn't account for this detail or that detail resulting in an error of 1% or less at this point, but the general trend is spot on and all of them agree. The only real questionable variable is how fast the rise will be and can we slow and stop it before it gets to a point that we have irreversible problems based on other theories, i.e., when the icecaps melt, it will cool the oceans temporarily, will that prevent the methane ice in the deep oceans from sublimating and releasing billions of tons of methane into the atmosphere or will that happen first and we're screwed? I'd rather we err on the side of "let's make sure that stays in the theoretical area and not test it"
Yep, he's evil, and he knows nothing of the difficulties mere mortals face, but he's not stupid. He's a pretty smart guy, and that makes him a towering intellectual giant compared to Trump.
I don't know, he just tried to foist a new Clippy on the world.
Not only is privacy dead, but the demand for privacy is as well.
Social media addiction has created a world full of narcissists who will gladly share every detail of their lives, and not care at all about inherent risk or impact.
The young definitely seem to be on the socialist path. That's not all bad, nor all good. Unfettered capitalism has led to some of the largest swindles ever seen. Even medieval kings didn't successfully gather as much power as some capitalists, because their economies were directly tied to their power. Capitalists have no such ties, destroying a country's economy has no negative bearing on their wealth if they can plunder the target country's wealth.
Given technological progress, adoption of some ideas of socialism are inevitable, as is further regulation of capitalism.
...everything popular media and government agencies tell you about Russia this and Russia that is true and not propaganda and fearmongering—or sometimes a complete nothingburger, even if true to a large extent, like with the elections. Just the fact that they could do this or that bad thing (and I can say that pretty much everything is possible with the current gang in power here), doesn't mean they actually have, unless you can show some credible proof and explanation.
I believe the proof you're seeking is at least partially provided by Facebook and Google's ad sales. Russian sources spent significant funds to direct ads to attempt to influence voters in specific battleground states. That's a pretty significant smoking gun, given all the other circumstantial evidence already reported regarding Russian activities.
Nothing like a "backdoor" way into a "locked" house. Next thing you know, the government will want a "key" to open all doors, because... terrorists! And then that key will be locked away just as securely as all the OPM data...
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I saw no such thing. But, this begs the question of who runs flash these days?
Yeah, reading this, I know for a fact the functionality described by 135 existed prior to 98. For starters, tokenRing could probably knock out everything after claim 9 out as prior art. Just adding "secure" to it doesn't make it novel or new. The claims describe nothing that did not exist prior to Oct 98 (which is the earliest date on any of the patents in question) As for the other 3, it just boggles my mind that someone approved those. Aren't patent examiners supposed to be "experts" in the field in question? It's almost like they outsourced these to a group of 6th graders.
You do realize that's virtually impossible, as the fonts on a HP LaserJet II vs a LaserJet IV or a Xerox were actually different for a given font? Yes, read that again, the damn fonts as rendered by each printer was physically different in output, even within a single manufacturer's line. Not sure why anymore, just that they were. So what Ami Pro likely did based on your discussion was the quick and dirty rendering as you were typing (windows crap) and then a proper rendering replacing it afterwards using its own rendering engine. (Note: I only used AmiPro on OS/2 where this wasn't an issue since OS/2 didn't do something this stupid) But any software that rendered to PS bypassed this windows nonsense, which was the way we got around a host of problems printing on Windows.
Most of the time, you're incorrect. Speech to text is pretty accurate and way better than "auto correct" guessing what I meant to type.
You just have to use it to find the right cadence and enunciation.
I guess if you can't touch type, that's true, even on a phone. I find I can type faster than auto-correct or speech to text. In fact, speech to text is almost as bad as auto-correct in figuring out what I want to type on any given line.
I actually agree they should move if they are rescued. No rebuilding.
> Yes, there's a lot of silly laws on the books
The real problem with "silly laws" is that, in the past at least, they weren't.
I have to completely disagree with you There are laws there that were always silly, although some person with mental issues probably thought they weren't. e.g.:
Might as well write a law against cows passing gas or jailing the farmer.
Probably because my internal wifi is relatively locked down to known MACs, etc. Yes, stuff can be spoofed, but I just don't have that level of paranoia. If it came down to that, I think I'd have bigger issues to worry about. However, that said, the number of devices in my house on wireless is less than a handful. almost everything is hard-wired.
The other end of my connection is 100/100 minimum with low latency to the backbone, so the small additional latency over the whatever wifi connection to begin with normally isn't an issue.
If it's not your wifi, it's not secure.
To be honest, I don't get this. Who cares if a network operator, or the person sitting next to you at a cafe next to you is snooping your data?
Because, for starters, you get around the whole MITM should any of this be compromised. Furthermore, as I use keys, the entire process is relatively secure and more importantly, it's transparent and easy to use. Finally, there are things you do that may or may not be across secure links, and I'm perfectly find with everything being guaranteed to be at least secure to a known connection.
Because Ami Pro had it's own rendering engine...
Running your own SSH tunnel for all communications is pretty standard when connecting anywhere. If it's not your wifi, it's not secure. That should be a mantra for everyone.
Actually, Word Perfect was better at WYSIWYG than any MS product ever will be, because you don't see what you get at all with MS Office products. This was the critical failure of Word, especially, since it used printer drivers to render documents, and those drivers would render a document differently depending upon supported fonts and other typesetting differences. I especially loved printing out my 60 page document on an HP LaserJet II and then getting 63 pages on a LaserJet III. WYSIWYG my ass.
Well damnit - it doesn't work on my SSD.
SSDs.
Google's designers are almost as good at design as Equifax is at security.
Umm, home automation is fine, but you shouldn't be relying on porous security like that offered by Alexa, Google, Siri, etc. They're all effectively backdoors into your home. If that means that there's no way to turn on your AC from the office, well, there's no way for anyone else to either.
It was more a comment on "pretty smart guy"
I think people want certain things to fail, like Windows specifically. You are correct that MS is highly diversified. They have solid revenue streams outside of windows. The OS and office appear to be holding steady currently, but that can primarily be attributed to increased milking of existing customers by moving them to subscription models. There is little growth in these areas to speak of, and they would be declining if it wasn't for these efforts. Office is being forced to be more open and less proprietary due to the number of non MS devices in use that need to be able to at least view those documents. Their mobile solution has completely failed, fortunately IMHO. The XBone, while providing what anyone would consider a healthy revenue, has failed to meet expectations for this release.
Are they failing like Sony? Obviously not. But they're not owning the market like they used to. This is a good thing, honestly.
Oh be honest. The models aren't "wrong" in the sense that they predicted a rise and there was a fall, they're only "wrong" in that they didn't account for this detail or that detail resulting in an error of 1% or less at this point, but the general trend is spot on and all of them agree. The only real questionable variable is how fast the rise will be and can we slow and stop it before it gets to a point that we have irreversible problems based on other theories, i.e., when the icecaps melt, it will cool the oceans temporarily, will that prevent the methane ice in the deep oceans from sublimating and releasing billions of tons of methane into the atmosphere or will that happen first and we're screwed? I'd rather we err on the side of "let's make sure that stays in the theoretical area and not test it"
Yep, he's evil, and he knows nothing of the difficulties mere mortals face, but he's not stupid. He's a pretty smart guy, and that makes him a towering intellectual giant compared to Trump.
I don't know, he just tried to foist a new Clippy on the world.
Not only is privacy dead, but the demand for privacy is as well.
Social media addiction has created a world full of narcissists who will gladly share every detail of their lives, and not care at all about inherent risk or impact.
This has fuck-all to do with the OS.
It's a goal of the 1984 blueprint.
We actually do - look at the reports presented by MS or Google of how many they get, offered in ranges.
The young definitely seem to be on the socialist path. That's not all bad, nor all good. Unfettered capitalism has led to some of the largest swindles ever seen. Even medieval kings didn't successfully gather as much power as some capitalists, because their economies were directly tied to their power. Capitalists have no such ties, destroying a country's economy has no negative bearing on their wealth if they can plunder the target country's wealth.
Given technological progress, adoption of some ideas of socialism are inevitable, as is further regulation of capitalism.
...everything popular media and government agencies tell you about Russia this and Russia that is true and not propaganda and fearmongering—or sometimes a complete nothingburger, even if true to a large extent, like with the elections. Just the fact that they could do this or that bad thing (and I can say that pretty much everything is possible with the current gang in power here), doesn't mean they actually have, unless you can show some credible proof and explanation.
I believe the proof you're seeking is at least partially provided by Facebook and Google's ad sales. Russian sources spent significant funds to direct ads to attempt to influence voters in specific battleground states. That's a pretty significant smoking gun, given all the other circumstantial evidence already reported regarding Russian activities.
Nothing like a "backdoor" way into a "locked" house. Next thing you know, the government will want a "key" to open all doors, because... terrorists! And then that key will be locked away just as securely as all the OPM data...