Here's a bit of odd trivia. The original Tron movie was created (in part) on a clone of the Digital PDP-10 computer. The PDP-10 includes an instruction called TRON (Test Right-halfword Ones and skip if Not masked). The opcode in octal (which is the convention on the PDP-10) is 666.
I doubt Disney will actively publicize this.
(I still fondly remember working for years with this odd but elegant 36-bit machine.)
The defendant has lost time and money on this case and gained nothing. Even if every case is resolved like this, the intimidation strategy will still be effective.
Yep, it really does work. After I spilled a beer on my keyboard, I put it in there by itself, with no soap.
It must be dry before you apply power. I let mine air dry for a week. (Maybe less time would be enough. I was being cautious.)
A month ago here.
And if anybody read the article, they would understand this is not a trademark suit - it is a breach of contract suit. Trademark/copyright/patent law does not apply.
The movie was rendered on a PDP-10 (well, a clone actually, but that doesn't matter) which had an instruction called TRON. I always thought the anti-christ-like character in the movie was so named because TRON's opcode expressed in octal, which was the convention for the PDP-10, is 666.
Anobody know if it was just a coincidence?
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Anybody else remember Aunt Hillary from Douglas Hofstadter's 1979 book? He uses an ant colony to demonstrate how collective intelligence arises from the interraction of lesser parts, which have no concept of the whole. Here's a passage I like:
Ant colonies have been subjected to the rigors of evolution for billions of years. A few mechanisms were selected for, and most were selected against. The end result was a set of mechanisms which make ant colonies work as we have been describing. If you could watch the whole process as a movie - running billions or so times faster than life, of course - the emergence of various mechanism would be seen as natural responses to external pressures, just as bubbles in boiling water are natural responses to an external heat source. I don't suppose you see "meaning" and "purpose" in boling water - or do you?
And then he goes on to make an amazing connection between the evolution of an ant colony to music!
Hofstadter wasn't speaking of the internet in his books, but often he might just as well have been.
The government can claim that the ability to intercept the communications required to plan and coordinate the attack would have uncovered it before it happened.
Personally, I don't buy that argument, but I think many people will.
...the Itanium product line will see its speed increase from 800 to 1 GHz, which is half the frequency of the company's fastest 2-GHz Pentium 4....Intel contends, however, that the faster front-side bus, more on-chip memory and redundant logic resources will more than make up for the processor's lag in clock speed.
We can only hope that this chip helps the media away from using clock speed as the primary (often only) measure of performance.
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Here's a bit of odd trivia. The original Tron movie was created (in part) on a clone of the Digital PDP-10 computer. The PDP-10 includes an instruction called TRON (Test Right-halfword Ones and skip if Not masked). The opcode in octal (which is the convention on the PDP-10) is 666.
I doubt Disney will actively publicize this.
(I still fondly remember working for years with this odd but elegant 36-bit machine.)
From the Joint stipulation for dismissal:
... each party to bear its/her own costs and fees
The defendant has lost time and money on this case and gained nothing. Even if every case is resolved like this, the intimidation strategy will still be effective.
Not quite true but you do have to go back in history a bit.
Yep, it really does work. After I spilled a beer on my keyboard, I put it in there by itself, with no soap. It must be dry before you apply power. I let mine air dry for a week. (Maybe less time would be enough. I was being cautious.)
If I were doing the study, I'd start with living DNA:
...quarterly salary survey. Computer Engineering degree holders once again command the highest starting salaries at an average of $53,117...
Hey, I've got a Computer Enginerring degree and my quarterly salary is nowhere near $53K. Oh, maybe they meant annual salaries.
A month ago here. And if anybody read the article, they would understand this is not a trademark suit - it is a breach of contract suit. Trademark/copyright/patent law does not apply.
Doesn't (didn't) 2600 have a contest like this? The first person to manage to get a .mil domain gets a free subscription, or something like that?
In addition, the first person to do this will get free room and board for life, courtesy of the U.S. Government.
...the slashdot effect.
The movie was rendered on a PDP-10 (well, a clone actually, but that doesn't matter) which had an instruction called TRON. I always thought the anti-christ-like character in the movie was so named because TRON's opcode expressed in octal, which was the convention for the PDP-10, is 666.
Anobody know if it was just a coincidence?
From the Australian government patent site Searching patent information page:
"Don't reinvent the wheel. Searching worldwide patent information can help you avoid wasting time and money duplicating work done elsewhere."
And even if you don't agree with what they think is bad taste, this can't be a huge surprise to anyone paying attention.
Clear Channel carries Rush Limbaugh and Dr Laura!
Anybody else remember Aunt Hillary from Douglas Hofstadter's 1979 book? He uses an ant colony to demonstrate how collective intelligence arises from the interraction of lesser parts, which have no concept of the whole. Here's a passage I like:
Ant colonies have been subjected to the rigors of evolution for billions of years. A few mechanisms were selected for, and most were selected against. The end result was a set of mechanisms which make ant colonies work as we have been describing. If you could watch the whole process as a movie - running billions or so times faster than life, of course - the emergence of various mechanism would be seen as natural responses to external pressures, just as bubbles in boiling water are natural responses to an external heat source. I don't suppose you see "meaning" and "purpose" in boling water - or do you?
And then he goes on to make an amazing connection between the evolution of an ant colony to music!
Hofstadter wasn't speaking of the internet in his books, but often he might just as well have been.
The government can claim that the ability to intercept the communications required to plan and coordinate the attack would have uncovered it before it happened.
Personally, I don't buy that argument, but I think many people will.
Here is an XML tutorial I found useful. Very easy to navigate, even for beginning XML users.
...the Itanium product line will see its speed increase from 800 to 1 GHz, which is half the frequency of the company's fastest 2-GHz Pentium 4....Intel contends, however, that the faster front-side bus, more on-chip memory and redundant logic resources will more than make up for the processor's lag in clock speed.
We can only hope that this chip helps the media away from using clock speed as the primary (often only) measure of performance.