There's a subtle, but possibly important, distinction between Apple's Switcher, DESQview and the AmigaOS mentioned by an earlier poster. The patent is said to apply to "multiple workspaces." Switcher and DESQview switched between workspaces. Although the underlying OS only supported a single application in a workspace, a workspace could also contain things like Macintosh Desk Accessories. AmigaOS supported multiple applications running in a single workspace.
came out in 1985, and switched between multiple applications/workspaces. I know there were MS-DOS utilties to switch between workspaces, too, just can't remember any names.
At $10,000 apiece, all MSFT has to do is sell 800,000 Surface tables and they've got their money back. I mean who doesn't want a big-ass kiosk in their home.
If their R&D has let them figure out a way to make $10,000 items which have a zero cost of goods, and don't have any marketing or support costs, they've got it made.
You mean Google-eyed emailers will now be able to do something which POP3 MUAs have been doing for, what, 20+ years, and IMAP for 15? How innovative of them.
Is that really "101,000," which is hardly an "astronomical" number, or is it supposed to be 10^1000? The article was correctly quoted, and with a quick search I couldn't find another source for the number of possible multiverses.
was always Soroc Technology, which made great terminals back in the '70s. The name came from a rearrangement of the beer brand Coors, and their logo looked like the top of a beer can.
What the fuck? That IS ABSOLUTELY censorship. You are LIMITING what they can say. THAT IS CENSORSHIP.
It is just censorship that you agree with.
Ones rights end where another's begin. Your right to free speech doesn't mean you can set a sound truck in front of my house and blast your speech into my yard.
There is no restriction of speech here, there is just a requirement that it be done through other channels. Make a DVD, and offer it to whoever, negotiate a channel on cable, etc.
Free speech means that I can say whatever the fuck I want to, with no restrictions. Add restrictions, and you no longer have free speech.
You're having a hard time with concepts. It's not a matter of what, but where. You have no right to broadcast anything you want into someone's home.
they can say whatever they want, just do it in a different medium.
These are public airwaves, and the public (through our representative government) has every right to restrict how they can be used. Saying you can't broadcast porno over the public airwaves doesn't limit free speech, it just means you have to find somewhere else to do it.
Limiting what content licensed broadcasters can send over the public airwaves is no more censorship than the fact that I'm not allowed to broadcast my speech on any frequency I want.
"what commercial receiver or transceiver is capable of > 5 gig without using a transverter"
My home wireless phone runs at 5.8 GHz. I can't say that I know the internal architecture, but it definitely doesn't have a separate transverter, which would make the phone itself unweildy.
the first Macs could also show an error dialog listing a "DS xx error." In the very first Mac developer documentation, a listing revealed that "DS" stood for "Deep Shit." Later revisions changed that to "Dire Straits."
Without external communications capabilities (e.g. WWVB or NTP), I guarantee you that this clock keeps more accurate time than any timepiece you've ever owned.
...all the more ridiculous.
Pendulum accuracy tops out about 1 s/month, unless it's a Shortt mechanism. Well designed quartz watches can do better.
Your attempt at using a red herring to distract attention from your incorrect and unsupported statement fails.
you jump to conclusions. Yes, it has an escapement. An escapement is just a mechanism to link the movement to something with periodicity. No, there isn't anything in the article to indicate that it is pendulum driven, or (as I said) exactly what it uses as a timebase.
Escapement timepieces without pendulums are common (e.g. most any mechanical wristwatch, which uses a balance wheel), people have corrected pendulums with atomic sources (typically using magnetics to delay or accelerate the pendulum).
It is actually you who are playing the smart ass, since you're obviously unaware of the full range of timekeeping mechanisms.
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Feel free to correct the Wiki article. While you're at it, you might want to get the myriad web sites which disagree with you to fix their pages.
AmigaDOS had a CLI. It was AmigaOS which included the Workbench GUI.
Quarterdeck Desq and Desqview (1985).
There's a subtle, but possibly important, distinction between Apple's Switcher, DESQview and the AmigaOS mentioned by an earlier poster. The patent is said to apply to "multiple workspaces." Switcher and DESQview switched between workspaces. Although the underlying OS only supported a single application in a workspace, a workspace could also contain things like Macintosh Desk Accessories. AmigaOS supported multiple applications running in a single workspace.
came out in 1985, and switched between multiple applications/workspaces. I know there were MS-DOS utilties to switch between workspaces, too, just can't remember any names.
At $10,000 apiece, all MSFT has to do is sell 800,000 Surface tables and they've got their money back. I mean who doesn't want a big-ass kiosk in their home.
If their R&D has let them figure out a way to make $10,000 items which have a zero cost of goods, and don't have any marketing or support costs, they've got it made.
You mean Google-eyed emailers will now be able to do something which POP3 MUAs have been doing for, what, 20+ years, and IMAP for 15? How innovative of them.
"Lemonade" was an economic simulation of selling drugged (sugar) water to people.
It came on cassette tape.
...or the remants of it, anyway.
Someone at the center of our galaxy obviously beat us to getting their Large Hadron Collider working before we did.
Amazingly enough, the Simpsons was first aired on April 19, 1987. That makes all of major characters over the age of 21.
Is that really "101,000," which is hardly an "astronomical" number, or is it supposed to be 10^1000? The article was correctly quoted, and with a quick search I couldn't find another source for the number of possible multiverses.
was always Soroc Technology, which made great terminals back in the '70s. The name came from a rearrangement of the beer brand Coors, and their logo looked like the top of a beer can.
Why don't you consider limits on power/frequency/modulation to be restrictions of free speech?
Ones rights end where another's begin. Your right to free speech doesn't mean you can set a sound truck in front of my house and blast your speech into my yard.
There is no restriction of speech here, there is just a requirement that it be done through other channels. Make a DVD, and offer it to whoever, negotiate a channel on cable, etc.
You're having a hard time with concepts. It's not a matter of what, but where. You have no right to broadcast anything you want into someone's home.
they can say whatever they want, just do it in a different medium.
These are public airwaves, and the public (through our representative government) has every right to restrict how they can be used. Saying you can't broadcast porno over the public airwaves doesn't limit free speech, it just means you have to find somewhere else to do it.
Limiting what content licensed broadcasters can send over the public airwaves is no more censorship than the fact that I'm not allowed to broadcast my speech on any frequency I want.
the name Bambi?
It's commonly thought of, and used, as a girl's name, but in one of its most famous uses (the movie) it's a male name.
they would have no need to buy our overpriced crap.
Smallparts.com has a selection, but not really cheap.
don't anyone clone Esther using her genome. One is more than enough.
Electrons have rights, too, you know.
"what commercial receiver or transceiver is capable of > 5 gig without using a transverter"
My home wireless phone runs at 5.8 GHz. I can't say that I know the internal architecture, but it definitely doesn't have a separate transverter, which would make the phone itself unweildy.
Republicans want into your bedroom. Democrats want into your wallet. Libertarians want neither.
"...now is build a system able to decode the light signatures."
Yea, and I can travel through time. The only thing I need is to build a time machine.
the first Macs could also show an error dialog listing a "DS xx error." In the very first Mac developer documentation, a listing revealed that "DS" stood for "Deep Shit." Later revisions changed that to "Dire Straits."
...all the more ridiculous.
Pendulum accuracy tops out about 1 s/month, unless it's a Shortt mechanism. Well designed quartz watches can do better.
Your attempt at using a red herring to distract attention from your incorrect and unsupported statement fails.
you jump to conclusions. Yes, it has an escapement. An escapement is just a mechanism to link the movement to something with periodicity. No, there isn't anything in the article to indicate that it is pendulum driven, or (as I said) exactly what it uses as a timebase.
Escapement timepieces without pendulums are common (e.g. most any mechanical wristwatch, which uses a balance wheel), people have corrected pendulums with atomic sources (typically using magnetics to delay or accelerate the pendulum).
It is actually you who are playing the smart ass, since you're obviously unaware of the full range of timekeeping mechanisms.