Posts by dlc.usa

Re: USPTO is the real problem.

Outsource it to the Swiss? An interesting approach and worthy of a feasibility study that probably can be completed within a few decades.

Unique Experience

Hands down, The Donald has more experience going bankrupt than all the other candidates combined. I expect that will come in handy for the next POTUS, if not the sitting one. On top of that he's a sublime twofer--bread AND circuses.

"Also if the patent is found to be bogus then the Patent office should foot half the reward to the wounded party."

This assumes the responsible people in the Patent office really care about the taxpayers' money; i.e., this is not good enough, but it's moving in the right direction.

Re: "Extra Toner"

Inquiring minds want to know if the increased expense of magnifying apparatus for vision-challenged employees and contractors was accounted for.

Re: No Lose?

That would fit most non-legal professionals' definitions of "reasonable" to be sure; thus, it cannot happen in a court of law. ;-) However, the judge that gets saddled with this one may become annoyed enough to find some "lawyers" in contempt of court, we can hope. Surely IBM can have no dreams of ever recovering its legal costs dealing with this freak of the legal system.

Re: I've missed something here

Perhaps they're using the RT patches (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux). That's what I would do, anyway.

Re: Protect?

As Alan Cox observed, Snowden should have run to the only place on Earth beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement: Wall Street.

Re: OSv Vis-à-vis CMS

CMS started life independent of the original CP-67 hypervisor development, so it is not a good comparison. GCS, OTOH, was later developed to provide all the MVS facilities needed to support the port of VTAM into the VM suite of products. CMS maintained its ability to be IPLed on bare metal for long time, but GCS never had that ability (or need). CMS did have some MVS (and VSE) facilities including VSAM but nowhere near what was needed for VTAM, particularly multiple task support (process in POSIX-speak).

I have the beard, too (moustache isn't grey, though) and started working with VM around 1978. The VM community inside and outside IBM developed virtualization into a powerful paradigm despite much resistance inside IBM and that history is well-documented. A major pillar was the VM-specific hardware development throughout the process that provided crucial performance gains and also allowed the hypervisor to itself be IPLed in a virtual machine. To our minds, z/VM provides industrial-strength virtualization, as the number of busy Linux instances a mainframe could handle with great stability even over a decade ago testifies. In general we would like to see desktop computers get there, too, while hoping mainframe virtualization will always continue to lead the way.

To Quote Kenny Roberts

"I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid."

Re: What about the religious nutheads?

Hmmm... Am I the only one around here to notice how those self-identifying Christians are in turn picked on by non-self-identifying Christians, even to the point of being subjected to hate crimes (violently objected to by some non-self-identifying Christians) by some non-self-identifying Christians?

Re: A similar argument applies to Time Travel - if it were possible, they'd already have visited.

Then, if possible, he does the typically human thing and tries it again, establishing a closed loop for all eternity.

Cool, Mr. Cathcart

I really hope you guys can demonstrate impact to the bottom line sufficient to justify your continuing efforts at innovation there. Of course, you'll need the help of marketing, won't you?

Re: Make two

Or in a universe once contemporaneously shared by Chiang and Jonathan Livingston Seagull ("IT WORKS!" "Well, of course it works, Jon. It always works when you know what you're doing. Now about your control...")

Re: Don't mess with IBM...

Indeed, SCO should be most grateful IBM never got their day in court. Instead, they got off relatively easily.

Re: Apple doesnt effect the landscape?

"Apple can 'have an effect on the landscape', but 'they affect the landscape'."

Or "they can effect a change in the landscape".

Re: America bashing

If you don't want us to go to war any more, simply stop lending us the money to do so. Please.

Re: A bit off topic but...

"And the 99.999999% are not thick, stupid, ignorant users, they are people that have more important and interesting things in their little lives than tinkering about in a forge...."

This includes Linus, you know. He's not interested in tinkering with desktops nor having one dictate how he goes about pursuing the "more important and interesting things in [his] little [life]." I believe he has made his position exceedingly plain. Last I heard he was running Linux Mint Debian XFCE. Me, too, but not because it's what Linus uses--I use it because of why Linus uses it; i.e., he and I agree on how to choose and have very similar priotities.

Re: Inductive coupling?

"Why haven't medical devices used it for decades?"

Repeat business model?

Re: CIA?

Most likely it's M$ via the CIA. ;-)

Re: Weak-willed

Possibly the right [pun intended] answer is "None of the above." If you want to motivate good global citizenship by corporations, you have to "vote" in the only terms they understand. Or perhaps you could motivate government to motivate them on your behalf. Unless the right answer to government is also "None of the above."

Re: Linux?

Oh, yeah (long night, I'm tired), they STILL DO, in case it wasn't obvious, the OCO aberations notwithstanding.