Mood:
caffeinatedNow Playing: 'Die Purple Fliedermaus Gerfluffen' Enemy agents probed by General Wankenstein. (War Atrocities)
Topic: TIMELINE
MAMA! Jilly said I can't sit in the back seat because I stole her peanut butter and jilly sandmich.
Jilly let Sara. Sara stick your tongue back in. Let Sara sit back there with you or y'all take turns.
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Something to twiddle your unthinkables... dun dun duhhnnnn du duhhnnnnnnnnnnn ... In this episode of Canoles in the Dessert, Field Marshalk Rummel finds himself in a pickle as the Italian troops defect enmasse'...
'Vait! Du haben nicht das osterizergestoffen mit dem toasterputzen fur das consolink prischevershitinkenmakken mit snoopeas!'.
Ya'll turn that down. I can't hear Connie Francis up here.
Yes ma'am.
'Commandant Plink! Der Panzers aust mit dem proopsbegorken aber nicht so das pinklesmakenschitnken!'
'Gut Gott das plinkenschitinen ist das muggermaken von der plaschtiknederber!'
'Aul ist los alt ist los mitten dem ctrl under del vershtocken plumetingen.'
dun dun duuuunnnnnnnnnn... dun duhhnnnnnnn
Don't color on that.
Oh yeah? I can color it if I want to because it... is...... mine and mama said so. Nyah.
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Come with us now to yester year when men had fuzzies and women kept tarantulas for pets. In this episode of 'Whipping Post' we join Madam Bruteskink and her slave Herr Plaken Shpiken as they endure grueling interrogation following the death of Claude N. Stanken.
TURN IT DOWN OR SO HELP ME I'LL STOP THIS CAR RIGHT NOW! Y'all are making me miss Patsy Cline.
Yes ma'am.
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By: ajax203
17 May 2006, 04:42 PM EDT
Msg. 159136 of 184813 aka http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=159136
Some Microsoft XML background:
Microsoft used this concept called Silkroute to build relational data in flat files into SQL/ML:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rd/39135020%2C389137%2C1%2C0.25%2CDownload/http://coblitz.codeen.org:3125/citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/18742/http:zSzzSzwww.cs.washington.eduzSzhomeszSzsuciuzSzfileszSz_F1523759225.pdf/fernndez99silkroute.pdf
Summary:
We describe a general framework for mapping relational databases to XML views, to be used in data exchange.
We describe a new query language, RXL, for mapping relational sources to XML views.
We describe a sound and complete query composition algorithm that, when given an RXL query and an XML-QL query, generates a new RXL query equivalent to their composition.
We describe a technique by which most of the work in an RXL query can be shipped to the underlying database engine.
MSFT got a patent on the SilkRoute method in 2003. Does anybody from PH (me - PH doesn't exist anymore. From July 6, 2003 http://www.programmersheaven.com/c/authorpage.asp?AuthorID=118252 ) have the link please? This was the patent used to challenge the VCSY Emily XML Enabler Agent. The XML Enabler Agent demonstrated the ability to do transformations in BOTH directions where SilkRoute only did one direction.
The VCSY/Emily XML Enabler Agent received an allowance from the Patent Office March 29, 2006 saying the XML Enabler Agent patent is granted. http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=96371
Just a week before that Microsoft announced Vista would be delyaed.
More than likely SilkRoute was something they were using starting around 2000 and probably building into their software development. Just funny I think maybe irony that VCSY announced the XMLAgent two weeks before Microsoft announced Hailstorm in 2001. And here it is 5 years later and Microsoft is takign a swan dive into the technology toilet again and the XMLAgent is going to be granted in a few more weeks.
Some Vista background:
WinFS is a way to make organize and manage relationships in files the way you would make records in a database. I think WinFS probably had the SilkRoute stuff in it. Why would they not? They had to move data around from one form to another and or to XML and I dont think they had many other patents for that sort of thing. Anybody else?
Microsoft axed WinFS out of Longhorn (Vista) in 2004 - this is a writeup from January 2004 (when WinFS was a go) updated in August 2004 to show when WinFS was pulled.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/01/WinFS/
Now theyre a go again. Theyre looking for people.
http://blogs.msdn.com/WinFS/default.aspx
"Hopefully by now, most of you have already seen some of the very cool WinFS demos...Microsoft recently made a decision to productize some of these ideas into a new application"
And there is probably more to the story than anybody knows why Vista and a bunch of other things happened and why Lukovsky and others headed for the hills. Read for yourself and decide. I know what I think.
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1820607,00.asp
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
The 'Dirty Little Secret' About Longhorn
By Mary Jo Foley
Contrary to what many believe, Longhorn won't be built on top of the .Net Framework, we hear. But that might not be a bad thing.
Developers say there's a dirty little secret about Longhorn that few Softies are discussing publicly: Longhorn won't be based on the .Net Framework.
We're still expecting that the .Net Framework will ship with Longhorn ? on the CD and/or "in the box" in some way. But the .Net Framework won't be at Longhorn's core, we hear.
Will Microsoft ever go public on this shift? Or are the Redmondians hoping this is just more insider baseball that will end up relegated to the "ancient history" files? One thing we know is this: Developers are talking. So, what's your two cents on how Longhorn's shaping up?
http://www.zdnet.com/5208-12354-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=20972&messageID=400752&start=-1
05/13/06
Anything in the shell related to .NET was ripped out
Anything that was based on .NET as an end-user feature was ripped out, for one. Lots of snazzy contact and shell features using Avalon and such. It was pretty and fun, but you can't go and have your shell based on .NET at this point. Maybe with CLR 3.0.
Lots of good people moved on after that decision.
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[Let's move on, shall we?]
CADILLAC!!!
I got that one.
No you didn't, you were pointing at the Buick.
Did so.
Did not.
Mama Darlene's getting car sick.
(its going to be a long trip to visit grandpa)
... waging war on a daily basis...
... walk in through this lovely foyer into the pastel sunken living room. Bob calls it the tripinsa... Oh my! What a bold statement THAT was ha ha ha.
... defeated Nazism and Fascism for all time. Or did it?...
... necking with Junior, her one true love in the drive in. They embraced each other tenderly. 'Oh Junior. I want to have your baby, sugar. What's so hard to understand about that?' 'But Wanda Lynn, I ain't ready to settle down. I learnt me how to cipher. And they says a good education will take you far. I got airplanes to fly and fish to catch and scalps to take.' 'But Junior sweety you can do that... just stay closer to home, that's all ... and I can make us a real home with a weedeater and a crockpot and a tv and a bed. You remember what the bed is for, don't you junior? It's for making...
Jilly!
Yes ma'am. Darlene wanted to watch it.
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Darlene has her daddy's helmet on her head. How can she be watching anything?
She said she got used to it being so dark.
Mama? Is that a police man?
What?
... and in Zooperior Court of the State of Fuzzy Nuglets:
AOL-Time Warner and Chinadotcom (CDC) parted ways beginning in earnest in late July:
Negotiations between chinadotcom and AOL July 18, 2003 09:33:00 AM ET
HONG KONG, July 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- chinadotcom corporation (Nasdaq: CHINA; website: www.corp.china.com) announced today that chinadotcom and America Online, Inc. ("AOL") are seeking to negotiate the resolution of all outstanding claims that chinadotcom has against AOL and related parties, as well as the disposition of AOL's existing holding of 6,795,200 shares of chinadotcom. In addition, AOL attempted to exercise a portion of its warrant to acquire additional shares in chinadotcom. The current negotiations also encompass the attempted exercise of a portion of AOL's warrant. There can be no assurance that any agreement will be reached with respect to any of these matters, and even if an agreement is reached, there can be no assurance of the effect of such agreement on chinadotcom or its stock price.
And a scant 10 days later (things happen so FAST these days):
Chinadotcom, AOL reach settlement Reuters, 07.28.03, 9:34 AM ET
CHICAGO, July 28 (Reuters) - Chinadotcom Corp. (nasdaq: CHINA - news - people) said on Monday it has resolved claims it has against America Online, the Internet division of AOL Time Warner Inc. Inc. (nyse: CHINA - news - people)
Under the settlement terms, AOL would be able to sell 6.795 million of Chinadotcom shares. AOL's two warrants to buy more Chinadotcom shares would be canceled.
chinadotcom Shareholding Disposal by AOL Completed
September 25, 2003
HONG KONG September 25, 2003 chinadotcom corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA; website: www.corp.china.com) announced today that based upon SEC filings, America Online, Inc. ("AOL") has disposed of its entire holding of 6,795,200 chinadotcom shares as of September 11, 2003.
For all news items see:
http://www.corp.china.com/newsroom/newsroom.html
Chinadotcom expressed gladness to be free of the AOL-Time Warner relationship which tied them to the pursuit of entertainment bent portal work in favor of the pursuit of manufacturing and mobile software efforts:
http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/25/technology/aol_china.reut/
"We're pleased to have an overhang on our stock removed and finality reached on this issue, and look forward to pursuing our software strategy focused on two of the fastest growing sectors in China -- export manufacturing and mobile applications," Chinadotcom Chief Financial Officer Daniel Widdicombe said in a statement.
"Barry Diller Is Focused"
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/805251
Barry Diller and AOL-Time Warner strategies
