FTFPA:A method for generating a computer application on a host system in an arbitrary object framework that separates a content of said computer application, a form of said computer application and a functionality of said computer application, said method comprising: creating arbitrary objects with corresponding arbitrary names of various object types for generating said content of said computer application, said form of said computer application, and said functionality of said computer application; managing said arbitrary objects in an object library; and deploying said arbitrary objects from said object library into a design framework to create said computer application. (emphasis mine)
julesh:What they've patented is the use of "design mode" with a "toolbox" of object types, in the specific way that visual studio does it.
WTF?
This is all GIBBERISH!!!
PS: Whaddup wit duh word "a" in TFPA?
a host system in an arbitrary object framework that separates a content of said computer application, a form of said computer application and a functionality of said computer application
Why didn't they use the word "any"?
any host system in an arbitrary object framework that separates any content of said computer application, any form of said computer application and any functionality of said computer application
As a last resort, if I were M$FT's lawyers, I'd tell the court that
the particular "a host system", the particular "a form of said computer application" and the particular "a functionality of said computer application"
as used by M$FT in.NET differ from
the particular "a host system", the particular "a form of said computer application" and the particular "a functionality of said computer application"
as used by Vertical Computer Systems in SiteFlash.
I mean seriously - ain't Grammar Fascism kinda the entire point of the generic law school curriculum & bar exam?
He got away with it *both* times because the law emasculates the citizen from carrying a weapon at all times.
And it was the Hokie adminstration that led the charge to dis-arm the students and the faculty:
Gun bill gets shot down by panel
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
...Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus"...
Does anybody know if Virginia Tech has a policy against firearms on campus?
Gun bill gets shot down by panel
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."
A modification to a spacecraft parameter, intended to update the High Gain Antenna's (HGA) pointing direction used for contingency operations, was mistakenly written to the incorrect spacecraft memory address in June 2006.
I am well aware that you can do some nifty things in VxWorks, but at some point, shouldn't you be using an OS [like QNX, Integrity, or, gasp!, WinCE] that offers a little more memory protection?
Especially if you're writing code in a language with pointers?
If anyone ever figures out a way pull a "Man in the Middle" on the Windows Update Service, then, to quote "Dandy" Don Meredith: Turn out the lights, the party's over.
So why not offer GRADUATED pricing levels? 2 GB/month for $x. 5 GB/month for $2x. 10 GB/month for $10x.
Why not just pay directly for the bits themselves?
$1 per GB per month [say].
So that if you used 17.79 GB for that month, then your bill would be precisely $17.79.
It's pretty much the way the long distance companies have being doing it since time immemorial.
And if upstream bits are more precious than downstream bits, then bill accordingly: Say, $2 per upstream GB per month, and $0.50 per downstream GB per month [or whatever].
It's not at all clear to me why the free market [in the form of PRICING] can't take care of this stuff naturally.
Juniper plans to demonstrate... at this month's CanSecWest conference in hopes of shifting more of the black hat community to looking at devices instead of software
My initial reaction was along the lines of, "Good God, I hope they get together with Marvell & JTAG and post some firmware updates before they release the details."
To do otherwise would strike me as nigh unto criminally negligent.
Or maybe they're saying that the vulnerability can't be patched in firmware?!? If so, then yikes! [And all the more negligent...]
NT has NEVER booted to a command line and required someone to type 'win' to boot the GUI. Just like a Mac has never booted to a command line. There is nothing under NT. Understand?
Dude - in NT 3.51, you could kill the windowing system.
Kinda like how you can kill "explorer.exe" in more recent versions of windows, and it sorta kills your "Active Desktop" before it [usually] reloads itself, only in NT 3.51, when you killed windows, you were left with a shell prompt, and you had to run "WIN.EXE" to restart windows.
It was just like loading or unloading X-Windows on a Unix system.
Like I say, NT 3.51 was just about the coolest product Microsoft every released.
Um... NT 3.1, 3.5, and 3.51 all booted to the Win32 subsystem GUI. You are somehow confusing Win 3.1 or something here. NT has always used Win32 as its primary subsystem, and been graphical.
No, dude, you could boot NT 3.51 without graphics.
Just like with Windows 3.11 running on top of DOS, with NT 3.51 you could type "WIN" at a shell prompt and start the windows system.
It was absolutely teh r0x0r - possibly the coolest product Microsoft ever released.
You are probably confusing video drivers that were moved to the kernel level for game performance in NT4, Win2k and WinXP, but have been moved back to User space in Vista due to a new way to harness the same level of kernel level driver performance without pushing the drivers into the kernel. (Which is actually quite clever technology if anyone is a OS Kernel nerd.)
I actually thought NT 3.51 was an exceedingly elegant system - it booted to a DOS-ish shell, you had to type "WIN" [for win.exe] if you wanted to load the windows graphics subsystem, and the entire "environment" was pure client[user space]/server[kernel space], with the graphics "client" living entirely in user space.
Then, as you indicate, with NT 4.0, the video drivers were brought into the kernel space, and, la voila, we were introduced to the infamous Blue Screen of Death.
So what is this "quite clever technology" that allows Vista to return to the older model?
Dude, she's 46 now. By the time shooting wraps on this project [assuming it isn't just an April Fool's joke to begin with], then she'd be a lot closer to 48 or 49.
Which, if you didn't take high school biology, is well past the menopausal point for most chicks.
Scully is Mulder's love interest because HE WANTS TO MAKE BABIES WITH HER!
And post-menopausal chicks can't make babies.
PS: As for the "much better actress", Julianne Moore never in her life played a role that had a tenth the sex appeal of Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully.
It seems that AMD has lost, and I'm not trying to troll. It just seems that fortunes have truly reversed and that AMD is being beaten by 5 steps everywhere by AMD. Anybody have an opposing viewpoint? (Being an AMD fan, I am depressed.)
Look at the title of this thread: Intel Next-Gen CPU Has Memory Controller and GPU.
The on-board memory controller was pretty much the defining architectural feature of the Opteron family of CPUs, especially as Opteron interacted with the HyperTransport bus. The Opteron architecture was introduced in April of 2003, and the HyperTransport architecture was introduced way back in April of 2001!!! As for the GPU, AMD purchased ATI in July of 2006 precisely so that they could integrate a GPU into their Opteron/Hypertransport package.
So from an intellectual property point of view, it's Intel that's furiously trying to claw their way back into the game.
But ultimately all of this will be decided by implementation - if AMD releases a first-rate implementation of their intellectual property, at a competitive price, then they'll be fine.
One small think they left off -- marginal tax rates. High rates like Sweden positively drive innovators away.
Given the rate at which the Europeans are NOT making babies, within another generation or two, Europe, as we once knew it, largely will have ceased to exist.
A Total Fertility Rate [TFR] of 2.10 [per woman per fertile lifetime] is necessary just to break even [you need the extra "0.1" mostly to account for children who don't survive to adulthood].
shooting on the two 'Stargate SG-1' movies finishes in June
Given the constraints of the budget, I thought the SciFi channel did a darned good job with the movie that ended the Farscape series - they took the concept about as far as it could be taken [I mean, seriously, it's hard to top an out-of-control wormhole that threatens to swallow up the entirety of space-time as we know it], and tied up most of the loose ends [boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl plus newborn baby].
I hope they take these Stargate movies at least as seriously - the SG-1 franchise deserves to go out with a bang.
I'd like to see all the species in our galaxy [The Asgard, the Nox, the Oannes, Ba'al & his gang, etc etc etc], teaming up a la Justice League of America, or Avengers/Defenders, and going head to head with the Origin armies, in a four-hour epic maelstrom of a battle, with blood and guts and iron and ash and fire and brimstone, and finally wiping those rat bastard Ori off the map forever.
And speaking of going out with a bang, after they've dealt with the Ori once and for all, the male leads could then turn to fighting over who gets to bang Inara Serra.
And it would be really neat if they could convince
Kurt Russell & James Spader to come back and play some roles - maybe president & vice president of the USA?
Or perhaps they could be in the cast of "Wormhole X-Treme!".
[And if you wanna get really cynical, it could be revealed that the entire Stargate franchise was merely the fantasy of a writer for "Wormhole X-Treme!" - kinda like how Bobby Ewing just reappeared in the shower one morning.]
The registry engine is implemented in kernel mode as an executive subsystem (inside ntoskrnl.exe), where it is known as the Configuration Manager. Registry hives use a transaction journal (like many filesystems do) to avoid corruption during a power failure or crash...
So you're saying that the engine which drives "the Configuration Manager" is neither Jet Red, nor Jet Blue, nor SQLServer Express?
So what is it? YAMIHDE [Yet Another Microsoft In-House Database Engine]?
Everything above is still the same in Vista as it was in NT 3.1.
I could have sworn that I read a few years ago that they were ditching the existing registry engine, and were going with a new engine for Longhorn/Vista.
So did that initiave prove to be YALFTEUOTCRF [Yet Another Longhorn Feature That Ended Up On The Cutting Room Floor]?
People hold high expectations on Novell, and I really don't know why. Of course they "bought" Suse in 2003, the Mono project, and some other free software projects. but Novell was, is and will always be a proprietary software company.
It's all about Mono.
While C# certainly doesn't have nearly the installed code base that Java has, ".NET" is pulling even with [and might even have surpassed] "J2EE":
As much as everybody loves to hate the guy, Ballmer was 100% correct when he said that it's all about "developers, developers, developers", and if you think ".NET" isn't the hottest thing in the programming market right now, then, well, you've been asleep at the wheel for the last five years.
Mono is the ace up Novell's sleeve; with the Microsoft agreement, they are assured that they've got something that Red Hat doesn't have, that Oracle won't have [with the upcoming "Oracle" Linux], and that even IBM or Sun wouldn't have, if they were to roll their own Linuxes, which is to say: An ironclad guarantee that their flavor of Linux will play nice with.NET.
Read E. O. Wilson's Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge [amazon.com] on why we should apply the scientific method to all field, even humanities, and why we should try to speak about all fields with a common language.
What's the definition of "the scientific method"?
More generally, what's the definition of "science"?
Actually, the problem was that they were using 36-bit integers to represent seconds.
Now there was a subfaction amongst them who argued for abandoning the 36-bit representation, and moving to a 64-bit address bus, but the 36-bitters pointed out that that wouldn't be reverse-compatible with the existing segmented address space, so they cooked the 64-bitters and ate them with fava beans and a nice Argentinean Malbec.
Subsequently, because they hadn't invented the concept of "zero" yet, when the 36-bitters came to discover the wrap-around problem, in what would come to be known as "December", of "2012", they all threw their hands up in despair and committedhara-kiri.
Slashdot Mirror
FTFPA: A method for generating a computer application on a host system in an arbitrary object framework that separates a content of said computer application, a form of said computer application and a functionality of said computer application, said method comprising: creating arbitrary objects with corresponding arbitrary names of various object types for generating said content of said computer application, said form of said computer application, and said functionality of said computer application; managing said arbitrary objects in an object library; and deploying said arbitrary objects from said object library into a design framework to create said computer application. (emphasis mine)
julesh: What they've patented is the use of "design mode" with a "toolbox" of object types, in the specific way that visual studio does it.
WTF?
This is all GIBBERISH!!!
PS: Whaddup wit duh word "a" in TFPA? Why didn't they use the word "any"? As a last resort, if I were M$FT's lawyers, I'd tell the court that as used by M$FT in
I mean seriously - ain't Grammar Fascism kinda the entire point of the generic law school curriculum & bar exam?
The only difference is that this time it's the printer manufacturer that's getting the service contract, and not some third party company.
Woe be unto the OEM that pisses on their channel.
He got away with it *both* times because the law emasculates the citizen from carrying a weapon at all times.
And it was the Hokie adminstration that led the charge to dis-arm the students and the faculty:
Does anybody know if Virginia Tech has a policy against firearms on campus?
Gun bill gets shot down by panel
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/wb/xp-5065
A modification to a spacecraft parameter, intended to update the High Gain Antenna's (HGA) pointing direction used for contingency operations, was mistakenly written to the incorrect spacecraft memory address in June 2006.
I am well aware that you can do some nifty things in VxWorks, but at some point, shouldn't you be using an OS [like QNX, Integrity, or, gasp!, WinCE] that offers a little more memory protection?
Especially if you're writing code in a language with pointers?
This is some serious sampling hardware [no affiliation]:
http://www.lynxstudio.com/products.html
If anyone ever figures out a way pull a "Man in the Middle" on the Windows Update Service, then, to quote "Dandy" Don Meredith: Turn out the lights, the party's over.
So why not offer GRADUATED pricing levels? 2 GB/month for $x. 5 GB/month for $2x. 10 GB/month for $10x.
Why not just pay directly for the bits themselves?
$1 per GB per month [say].
So that if you used 17.79 GB for that month, then your bill would be precisely $17.79.
It's pretty much the way the long distance companies have being doing it since time immemorial.
And if upstream bits are more precious than downstream bits, then bill accordingly: Say, $2 per upstream GB per month, and $0.50 per downstream GB per month [or whatever].
It's not at all clear to me why the free market [in the form of PRICING] can't take care of this stuff naturally.
Juniper plans to demonstrate... at this month's CanSecWest conference in hopes of shifting more of the black hat community to looking at devices instead of software
My initial reaction was along the lines of, "Good God, I hope they get together with Marvell & JTAG and post some firmware updates before they release the details."
To do otherwise would strike me as nigh unto criminally negligent.
Or maybe they're saying that the vulnerability can't be patched in firmware?!? If so, then yikes! [And all the more negligent...]
NT has NEVER booted to a command line and required someone to type 'win' to boot the GUI. Just like a Mac has never booted to a command line. There is nothing under NT. Understand?
Dude - in NT 3.51, you could kill the windowing system.
Kinda like how you can kill "explorer.exe" in more recent versions of windows, and it sorta kills your "Active Desktop" before it [usually] reloads itself, only in NT 3.51, when you killed windows, you were left with a shell prompt, and you had to run "WIN.EXE" to restart windows.
It was just like loading or unloading X-Windows on a Unix system.
Like I say, NT 3.51 was just about the coolest product Microsoft every released.
Um... NT 3.1, 3.5, and 3.51 all booted to the Win32 subsystem GUI. You are somehow confusing Win 3.1 or something here. NT has always used Win32 as its primary subsystem, and been graphical.
No, dude, you could boot NT 3.51 without graphics.
Just like with Windows 3.11 running on top of DOS, with NT 3.51 you could type "WIN" at a shell prompt and start the windows system.
It was absolutely teh r0x0r - possibly the coolest product Microsoft ever released.
You are probably confusing video drivers that were moved to the kernel level for game performance in NT4, Win2k and WinXP, but have been moved back to User space in Vista due to a new way to harness the same level of kernel level driver performance without pushing the drivers into the kernel. (Which is actually quite clever technology if anyone is a OS Kernel nerd.)
I actually thought NT 3.51 was an exceedingly elegant system - it booted to a DOS-ish shell, you had to type "WIN" [for win.exe] if you wanted to load the windows graphics subsystem, and the entire "environment" was pure client[user space]/server[kernel space], with the graphics "client" living entirely in user space.
Then, as you indicate, with NT 4.0, the video drivers were brought into the kernel space, and, la voila, we were introduced to the infamous Blue Screen of Death.
So what is this "quite clever technology" that allows Vista to return to the older model?
Dude, she's 46 now. By the time shooting wraps on this project [assuming it isn't just an April Fool's joke to begin with], then she'd be a lot closer to 48 or 49.
Which, if you didn't take high school biology, is well past the menopausal point for most chicks.
Scully is Mulder's love interest because HE WANTS TO MAKE BABIES WITH HER!
And post-menopausal chicks can't make babies.
PS: As for the "much better actress", Julianne Moore never in her life played a role that had a tenth the sex appeal of Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully.
Dude, that picture is like 15 years old.
Here's what she looked like back in 2005 [almost two years ago], when was filming Freedomland [released February 17, 2006]:
Red Scare: Julianne Moore takes off the make-up in Freedomland.
You can decide for yourself whether or not that qualifies as GMILF material.
In fact, compare a side-by-side of early Gillian Anderson -vs- recent Julianne Moore:
early Gillian Anderson
recent Julianne Moore
Guys, Julianne Moore was born on December 3, 1960, which would make her - gosh - almost 50 years old.
Somehow I'm having a hard time visualizing Special Agent Dana Scully as a GMILF [Grandmother I'd like to...].
It seems that AMD has lost, and I'm not trying to troll. It just seems that fortunes have truly reversed and that AMD is being beaten by 5 steps everywhere by AMD. Anybody have an opposing viewpoint? (Being an AMD fan, I am depressed.)
Look at the title of this thread: Intel Next-Gen CPU Has Memory Controller and GPU.
The on-board memory controller was pretty much the defining architectural feature of the Opteron family of CPUs, especially as Opteron interacted with the HyperTransport bus. The Opteron architecture was introduced in April of 2003, and the HyperTransport architecture was introduced way back in April of 2001!!! As for the GPU, AMD purchased ATI in July of 2006 precisely so that they could integrate a GPU into their Opteron/Hypertransport package.
So from an intellectual property point of view, it's Intel that's furiously trying to claw their way back into the game.
But ultimately all of this will be decided by implementation - if AMD releases a first-rate implementation of their intellectual property, at a competitive price, then they'll be fine.
One small think they left off -- marginal tax rates. High rates like Sweden positively drive innovators away.
Given the rate at which the Europeans are NOT making babies, within another generation or two, Europe, as we once knew it, largely will have ceased to exist.
Just within northern Europe:
Iceland: 1.92 TFR (2006)
Norway: 1.78 TFR (2006)
Denmark: 1.74 TFR (2006)
Finland: 1.73 TFR (2006)
Sweden: 1.66 TFR (2006)
Belarus: 1.43 TFR (2006)
Estonia: 1.40 TFR (2006)
Germany: 1.39 TFR (2006)
Russia: 1.28 TFR (2006)
Latvia: 1.27 TFR (2006)
Poland: 1.25 TFR (2006)
Lithuania: 1.20 TFR (2006)
Ukraine: 1.17 TFR (2006)
A Total Fertility Rate [TFR] of 2.10 [per woman per fertile lifetime] is necessary just to break even [you need the extra "0.1" mostly to account for children who don't survive to adulthood].
shooting on the two 'Stargate SG-1' movies finishes in June
Given the constraints of the budget, I thought the SciFi channel did a darned good job with the movie that ended the Farscape series - they took the concept about as far as it could be taken [I mean, seriously, it's hard to top an out-of-control wormhole that threatens to swallow up the entirety of space-time as we know it], and tied up most of the loose ends [boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl plus newborn baby].
I hope they take these Stargate movies at least as seriously - the SG-1 franchise deserves to go out with a bang.
I'd like to see all the species in our galaxy [The Asgard, the Nox, the Oannes, Ba'al & his gang, etc etc etc], teaming up a la Justice League of America, or Avengers/Defenders, and going head to head with the Origin armies, in a four-hour epic maelstrom of a battle, with blood and guts and iron and ash and fire and brimstone, and finally wiping those rat bastard Ori off the map forever.
And speaking of going out with a bang, after they've dealt with the Ori once and for all, the male leads could then turn to fighting over who gets to bang Inara Serra.
And it would be really neat if they could convince Kurt Russell & James Spader to come back and play some roles - maybe president & vice president of the USA?
Or perhaps they could be in the cast of "Wormhole X-Treme!".
[And if you wanna get really cynical, it could be revealed that the entire Stargate franchise was merely the fantasy of a writer for "Wormhole X-Treme!" - kinda like how Bobby Ewing just reappeared in the shower one morning.]
var fo = new FlashObj("/img/flash/media_player.swf", 320, 260);
God, I hate Macromedia, and the marketing departments that are addicted to it.
Does no one post MPGs anymore?
The registry engine is implemented in kernel mode as an executive subsystem (inside ntoskrnl.exe), where it is known as the Configuration Manager. Registry hives use a transaction journal (like many filesystems do) to avoid corruption during a power failure or crash...
So you're saying that the engine which drives "the Configuration Manager" is neither Jet Red, nor Jet Blue, nor SQLServer Express?
So what is it? YAMIHDE [Yet Another Microsoft In-House Database Engine]?
Everything above is still the same in Vista as it was in NT 3.1.
I could have sworn that I read a few years ago that they were ditching the existing registry engine, and were going with a new engine for Longhorn/Vista.
So did that initiave prove to be YALFTEUOTCRF [Yet Another Longhorn Feature That Ended Up On The Cutting Room Floor]?
For years, the "Registry" was some weird mish-mash of binary files, many of which represented Jet databases.
Has Jet been completed abandoned in Vista?
If so, did they switch to the slimmed down SQLServer [that was supposed to be part of WinFS]?
People hold high expectations on Novell, and I really don't know why. Of course they "bought" Suse in 2003, the Mono project, and some other free software projects. but Novell was, is and will always be a proprietary software company.
It's all about Mono.
While C# certainly doesn't have nearly the installed code base that Java has, ".NET" is pulling even with [and might even have surpassed] "J2EE":
As much as everybody loves to hate the guy, Ballmer was 100% correct when he said that it's all about "developers, developers, developers", and if you think ".NET" isn't the hottest thing in the programming market right now, then, well, you've been asleep at the wheel for the last five years.
Mono is the ace up Novell's sleeve; with the Microsoft agreement, they are assured that they've got something that Red Hat doesn't have, that Oracle won't have [with the upcoming "Oracle" Linux], and that even IBM or Sun wouldn't have, if they were to roll their own Linuxes, which is to say: An ironclad guarantee that their flavor of Linux will play nice with
Read E. O. Wilson's Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge [amazon.com] on why we should apply the scientific method to all field, even humanities, and why we should try to speak about all fields with a common language.
What's the definition of "the scientific method"?
More generally, what's the definition of "science"?
Actually, the problem was that they were using 36-bit integers to represent seconds.
Now there was a subfaction amongst them who argued for abandoning the 36-bit representation, and moving to a 64-bit address bus, but the 36-bitters pointed out that that wouldn't be reverse-compatible with the existing segmented address space, so they cooked the 64-bitters and ate them with fava beans and a nice Argentinean Malbec.
Subsequently, because they hadn't invented the concept of "zero" yet, when the 36-bitters came to discover the wrap-around problem, in what would come to be known as "December", of "2012", they all threw their hands up in despair and committed hara-kiri.
Would love to be able to run a modern OS on Harvard Architecture hardware - something like OpenBSD on a Data General AViiON with lots and lots of Motorolla 88K CPUs.
More recently, a big honkin hypertransport backplane with a mix of quad-core Opterons and FPGAs.
Bonus points if there's an onboard analog processing unit.
Soundcard would have to be the LynxTWO-C: six input channels of 200K samples per second at 24-bits per sample.