I have read several posts attributing HTML as an invention of TBL. This in
my opinion is incorrect, the WWW dates back to 1980. HTML is a derivative of
SGML which dates back to
1960's and is a descendant
of IBM's GML. Check this for some more history. -- Han Tacoma
I'd bet you have almost no chance of finding a 15-year-old MVS box running any business anywhere.
You'd be surprised to still find 1401's in LA (don't mind the amount of energy used) and those didn't even have operating systems. Still running Autocoder (Assembler equivalent) business applications with 4K of core memory.
Besides bad information in the WHOIS placed by the Registrant, there are also cases where the Registrar has placed bad information on purpose because of some bad blood between them. This has the effect that the Registrant has very little chance to make modifications to the record (specially when they are technically illiterate and didn't get the ID/PW) and little recourse to complain to the uplink. About the only chance they have is to go to a Backorder service, hope that the Registrar will forget to renew before expiration and try to regain control of the domain name that way.
Don't forget these are the real precursors to relational databases.
CARDS
Master
A set of columns with identifying information, i.e. Name, Address, etc.
Detail
One or more cards specifying summary information, i.e. Balance; and other cards carrying transaction information, i.e. debit/credit amounts, reference numbers, etc. Only problem was dropping the trays;-) then you had to go sort them all over again, run them through the collator and then on to the tabulator.
You mean you never wired panels and punched cards to play the national anthem on mechanical typebars?
Or never had the equivalent of a BSOD because a rat had gotten stuck in the gears of the tabulator?
Maybe I'm getting old, but it was fun when you couln't figure out which relay or counter was causing a specific fuse to blow, so you'd put the brass fuse in and wait to see where the smoke was coming from.
Maybe the RIAA could do something productive such as donating their loss to reduce the national debt. That would certainly take a big byte out of it and even if it was 97 Billion it would still be a bit out of the debt!
I do not want to take away the importance of having a surgeon available for the case described by frankmu. I do however take exception to the implication that a surgeon is always better than a technology being developed. Case in point would be the Mycin expert system developed at Stanford in the 1970s. Mycin diagnosed and recommended treatment for blood infections in less than the 48 hours necessary to grow cultures of the infecting organism(s), because if doctors had to wait for completion thereof the patient would probably be dead! In those cases doctors would just quickly guess about likely problems from the available data and provide drugs which might deal with the infection.
It turns out that Mycin (in those days) outperformed doctors significantly. Mycin's accuracy rate was above 60% while doctors invariably scored below 40%.
Cheers!
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Han Tacoma
Isn't the key refusing public libraries?
on
Democracy in the Dark?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Public libraries are responsible for purchasing other copyright materials such as books, videos, magazines, etc., and making these available to people willing to go to a library.
"By refusing to allow public libraries to purchase electronic subscriptions that can serve their patrons,..."
Should that not be the key point? The refusal to allow public libraries to purchase?
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I have read several posts attributing HTML as an invention of TBL.
This in my opinion is incorrect, the WWW dates back to 1980.
HTML is a derivative of SGML which dates back to 1960's and is
a descendant of IBM's GML.
Check this for some more history.
--
Han Tacoma
I used to service the 360's, lot's of fun.
I'd bet you have almost no chance of finding a 15-year-old MVS box running any business anywhere.
You'd be surprised to still find 1401's in LA (don't mind the amount of energy used) and those didn't even have operating systems. Still running Autocoder (Assembler equivalent) business applications with 4K of core memory.
Cheers!
--
Han Tacoma
Besides bad information in the WHOIS placed by the Registrant, there are also cases where the Registrar has placed bad information on purpose because of some bad blood between them.
This has the effect that the Registrant has very little chance to make modifications to the record (specially when they are technically illiterate and didn't get the ID/PW) and little recourse to complain to the uplink.
About the only chance they have is to go to a Backorder service, hope that the Registrar will forget to renew before expiration and try to regain control of the domain name that way.
Cheers!
--
Han Tacoma
handy_vandal wrote:
Don't forget these are the real precursors to relational databases. CARDS
Master A set of columns with identifying information, i.e. Name, Address, etc. Detail One or more cards specifying summary information, i.e. Balance; and other cards carrying transaction information, i.e. debit/credit amounts, reference numbers, etc. Only problem was dropping the trays
Cheers!
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Han Tacoma
...rather strange all that is happening!
IBM Sells Computer Using AMD Chip to Bristol-Myers
Wed January 14, 2004 01:02 AM ET
Cheers!
Wow!, a real newbie :-)
You mean you never wired panels and punched cards to play the national anthem on mechanical typebars?
Or never had the equivalent of a BSOD because a rat had gotten stuck in the gears of the tabulator?
Maybe I'm getting old, but it was fun when you couln't figure out which relay or counter was causing a specific fuse to blow, so you'd put the brass fuse in and wait to see where the smoke was coming from.
Cheers!
--
Maybe the RIAA could do something productive such as donating their loss to reduce the national debt. That would certainly take a big byte out of it and even if it was 97 Billion it would still be a bit out of the debt!
Cheers!
--
I do not want to take away the importance of having a surgeon available for the case described by frankmu. I do however take exception to the implication that a surgeon is always better than a technology being developed. Case in point would be the Mycin expert system developed at Stanford in the 1970s. Mycin diagnosed and recommended treatment for blood infections in less than the 48 hours necessary to grow cultures of the infecting organism(s), because if doctors had to wait for completion thereof the patient would probably be dead! In those cases doctors would just quickly guess about likely problems from the available data and provide drugs which might deal with the infection. It turns out that Mycin (in those days) outperformed doctors significantly. Mycin's accuracy rate was above 60% while doctors invariably scored below 40%. Cheers! -- Han Tacoma
Should that not be the key point?
The refusal to allow public libraries to purchase?
--
Han Tacoma