[3239] in Central_America
New quotes for Fri Mar 1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Fri Mar 1 01:33:05 1991
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 01:32:31 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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allenshu (Luke Skywalker):
To own the world,
To own the universe,
To own all that there is,
To make the people serve me,
And call me Master.
That is my plan.
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carla (Carla Jean Fermann):
This user has not yet created a useful plan. Good plan files contain
information on who the user is (e.g,, linguistics student) and where
they can be reached (e.g., office location and phone number).
Creative ones may contain poetry, artwork, ....
type "help plan" for more info.
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dmweis (David M Weisberg):
Hi, my name is Dave Weisberg, and this is my plan file.
* * * *
Sorry, I don't exist any more. I left Athena at Thu Feb 28 17:28:22 EST 1991.
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ehm (Elvis Autofelch):
there's no place like home,
there's no place like home,
there's no place like home.
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
seen on the net...
>>I was watching an ancient _Get Smart_ rerun on TV recently. Kaos agents had
>>kidnapped the Chief. Maxwell Smart was negotiating with a Kaos agent for the
>>return of the Chief. The Kaos agent wanted Control's new secret weapon, X11,
>>in return for releasing the Chief!
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fihsu (Francis I-wei Hsu):
I had a plan, but I'm afraid that things here have not gone according to plan.
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hmnarvae (Howard Mario Narvaez):
To be happy. . .and have lots of good pizza.
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
where there is confusion, there can be no plan.
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Waiting for That Day
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Listen Without Prejudice
George Michael
Now every day I see you in some other face / They crack a smile, talk a while
Try to take your place / My memory serves me far too well
I just sit here on this mountain thinking to myself / You're a fool boy
Why don't you go down / FIND SOMEBODY / Find somebody else
My memory serves me far too well
IT'S NOT AS THOUGH WE JUST BROKE UP / IT'S NOT AS THOUGH IT WAS YESTERDAY
BUT SOMETHING I JUST CAN'T EXPLAIN / SOMETHING IN ME NEEDS THIS PAIN
I know I'll never see your face again
C'mon now / I've got to be strong now
NOW EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT THIS NEW DECADE / LIKE YOU SAY THE MAGIC NUMBERS
THEN JUST SAY GOODBYE TO / THE STUPID MISTAKES YOU MADE
Oh my memory serves me far too well
Don't you know that / The years will come and go
Some of us will change our lives / Some of us still have nothing to show
Nothing baby / But memories
AND IF THESE WOUNDS / THEY ARE SELF INFLICTED
I DON'T REALLY KNOW / HOW MY POOR HEART COULD HAVE PROTECTED ME
BUT IF I HAVE TO CARRY THIS PAIN / IF YOU WILL NOT SHARE THE BLAME
I DESERVE TO SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN
C'mon now / You don't have to be strong now / Come back
Come back to me my darling / I will make it worth your while
Come on back to your baby / I miss your kiss
I miss your smile / Seems to me the peace I search to find
Ain't gonna be mine until you say you will
Don't you keep me waiting for that day
I know / You hear these words that I say
You can't always get what you want...
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Glad to hear of the successful conclusion of the expulsion of Iraq from
Kuwait.
Still dubious as to the advisability of the action in the first place.
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
In the future:
2/27 :-) somebody's bday :-)
3/1 interview with Consulting for Management Decisions
3/2 Brass Ensemble concert at Symphony Hall
3/17 Kristine's bridal shower (Don't get wet :-) )
other stuff to do:
who's gonna read the readings??
who's gonna hold up the canopy??
make corsages and other flower stuff
more burning questions to come...
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Words-n-stuff for the day:
Yes, many primitive people still believe this myth...But in today's technical
vastness of the future, we can guess that surely things were much different.
- The Firesign Theater
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lwvanels (Lucien W. Van Elsen):
On a poem by Frost
Life would be simple indeed, Robert
If it were only two roads that diverged in the wood;
but I see hundreds
and hundreds more lie not ten feet beyond each one
so on and so forth forever and ever
the riddle of the hydra's heads seems trivial by comparison.
As for ``less traveled,'' well, the majority of those roads are left
less traveled for good reasons
the height of the grass is often a good liar.
The only thing that gives me any hope at all
is the faith (for we never know it as a fact)
that enough of those paths merge or eat their own tails
to make your picture right after all, in some renormalized way.
No question that a wall lies at the end of any road we chose.
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morton22 (Michael Saltsman):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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nlcassim (Nicholas L Cassimatis):
My good friend, bi04+@andrew.cmu.edu, suggests that I have a .plan
file. He says I can make people think that I am interesting this way.
I felt a funeral in my brain,
And mourners, to and fro,
Kept treading, treading, till it seemed
That sense was breaking through.
And when they were all seated,
A service like a drum
Kept beating, beating, till I thought
My mind was going numb.
And then I heard them lift a box,
And creak across my soul
With those same boots of lead, again.
Then space began to toll
As all the heavens were a bell,
And Being but an ear,
And I and silence some strange race,
Wrecked, solitary, here.
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pluto (Allan Y Chong):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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sjduboi (Steve J Dubois):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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therese (Suntioinen Therese M.):
Name: Therese Miho Honda
Age: 20
Sex: Female
Status: Single (but not for long)
Major: Theoretical Mathematics (Theoretically)
Level: 4 Exp. Points: 153 276
Attributes: (very low: 1, ... very high: 10)
Strength: 3.5 (According to the Scott Corrington Arm wrestling test)
Dexterity: 6
Self Control: 8
Patience: 8
Charisma: 7
Intelligence: 9 (I can dream, can't I?)
Empathy: 7.5
Primary Skills:
Amateur Photography (pictures of trees with a Kodak instamatic)
Drawing (happy faces and doodles in notebook margins)
Eating (good food, and some bad when hungry enough)
Piano playing (about 10 years)
Sighing (for no reason in particular)
Singing (Not great, but can carry a tune)
Sleeping (rarely, but soundly)
Swimming (self-taught, and inventor of the Therese original semi-freestyle)
Talking (for about 19 years, lots of it too)
Languages:
Japanese: 1.5 years
English: 19 years
Pidgin: 19 years (but another Hawaiian is necessary to bring this out)
Favorite Quote:
"Bits and pieces, bits and pieces.."
Favorite Song:
Be still my beating heart
It would be better to be cool
It's not time to be open just yet
A lesson once learned is so hard to forget
Be still my beating heart
Or I'll be taken for a fool
It's not healthy to run at this pace
The blood runs so red to my face
I've been to every single book I know
To soothe the thoughs that plague me so
I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean
My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion
Stop before you start
Be still my beating heart
Restore my broken dreams
Shattered like a falling glass
I'm not ready to be broken just yet
A lesson once learned is so hard to forget
Be still my beating heart
You must learn to stand your ground
It's not healthy to run at this pace
The blood runs so red to my face
I've been to every single book I know
To soothe the thoughts that plague me so
Stop before you start
Be still my beating heart
Never to be wrong
Never to make promises that break
It's like singing in the wind
Or writing on the surface of a lake
And I wriggle like a fish caught on dry land
And I struggle to avoid any help at hand
I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean
My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion
Stop before you start
Be still my beating heart
- Sting (of course!!)
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Address: Home: Email:
McCormick Hall #233 47-623 Nukupu'u Street therese@athena.mit.edu
320 Memorial Drive Kaneohe, Hawaii suukko@bourbaki.mit.edu
Cambridge, MA 96744-5510 honda@ai.mit.edu
02139-4316
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vanharen (Chris `syndic' VanHaren):
From the N.Y. Time, 2/26/91. Of course, the author doesn't know exactly
what he is talking about, and gets window managers confused with
windowing systems, and totally misses the whole point about backing
store, which is what the whole scare is about anyway, but there are some
good quotes nonetheless...
I also like the use of "work stations" in the article...
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Patent Action On Software By A.T.&T.
- by John Markoff -
A.T.&T. has quietly sent letters to a number of computer makers and
software publishers informing them that they are infringing a 1985 Bell
Laboratories patent that covers basic software technology for running
several programs simultaneously on a computer display.
The letters cover the software for work stations, the fastest-
growing part of the computer industry, and could have a significant
impact on smaller companies in that field. But it will have no effect
on personal computer companies like Apple Computer Inc. and the
Microsoft Corporation.
The letters have raised concerns among some computer industry
executives, who said they feared that by trying to enforce the patent
the American Telephone and Telegraph Company would in effect re-enact a
controversial 1988 lawsuit. In that case, which is still to be decided,
Apple sued Microsoft and the Hewlett-Packard Company over the "look and
feel" of computer displays.
- A Vital Area -
The patent covers an area that is vital to modern computer work
stations and personal computers that user software graphics display
systems, known as window managers, to permit users to look at
information in multiple windows on a computer screen. Such software,
now available on most popular desktop computers, uses a "mouse"
peripheral device to control the system by pointing at icons or menus to
issue specific instructions.
A.T.&T. officials said the company did not view the letters as
unusual. "It's a routine business area, the way we look at it," said
William Ryan, a Bell Laboratories lawyer. He said some companies that
had received the letter were alarmed because they were not used to
licensing technology, which is standard among larger high-technology
companies.
But other software developers said that the A.T.&T. licensing
procedure could limit the distribution of some software systems.
Richard Stallman, a well-known programmer who has established a software
foundation to create a free version of Unix and a set of advanced
programming tools, said the A.T.&T. move could cripple his program.
"It's a threat to small software companies and to free software," he
said.
The letters have been sent during recent months to members of a
Massachusetts Institute of Technology organization known as the X
Consortium, which distributes an advanced software system that is being
adopted by a wide variety of computer makers and software vendors who
develop systems that run the Unix operating system.
A spokeswoman at the Santa Cruz Operation, a Santa Cruz, Calif.,
software publisher that offers a version of the Unix operating system,
said that the company had been contacted last year and had responded to
A.T.&T. that it was not clear what the infringement was. The company
has not heard from A.T.&T. since it responded.
- `Window Manager' Development -
The first development in advanced software window managers was done
by researchers at the Xerox's Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center
during the 1970's. But that technology permitted only one active window
at a time, said Robert C. Pike, a Bell Laboratories researcher who holds
the A.T.&T. patent.
In the early 1980's, he developed a system that permitted several
programs to run simultaneously, sending the results of each program to a
different window. The key to the Bell Laboratories technology is that
it frees the programmer from worrying about whether a program is being
displayed or hidden behind another window.
Mr. Pike said he did not know whether his patent would cover popular
commercial programs like Microsoft's Windows 3.0 or the Apple Macintosh
software system. Officials at Microsoft said that they had not been
contacted by A.T.&T.
Mr. Pike also said that A.T.&T. was not trying to cripple the
software industry by seeking to license its technology. "The technical
communities' fears are not reasonable," he said. "A.T.&T. is going to
behave sensibly and honorably about this. Remember, this is the company
that gave away the transistor."
In recent years, there has been a trend for some high-technology
companies, like Texas Instruments Inc., to aggressively pursue patents
on basic technology as a fundamental source of revenue, said Jack Russo,
a Palo Alto lawyer who specializes in intellectual property law.
"It's an interesting development," he said. "I always thought of
A.T.&T. as a sleepy company that has a lot of patents they do nothing
with. I haven't seen them act aggressively in the past."
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web (Chee Chew):
I'm Chee. TWO E's. Ken's the one with long dark hair.
Sometimes when things are down, and you really don't know why we go
through all of this. You stop to think and the thought comes...
"Wow, I could have had a V-8"
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