Lets see. I grew up on a farm so that will be difficult. I drive tractors
and have made square and round bales most of my life, and I operated the
rake for the hay, drove a forklift for 5 yrs, repair lawnmowers on the side
now, but that probably doesn't count as heavy equipement. If you mean
bulldozers, no I haven't done that, but I could and probably outdo you
Donald. Does electrical work count..nah, that was too easy...and there
wasn't any heavy lifting in installing 220.
But for you Donald, I will try and stay away from heavy equipement during
the posting on this site.
Jenn
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Donald B Johnson jr
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 12:30 PM
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If you read through that post and thought that it was "serious" I mean not
even counting the subject line. That scares me.
I guess its no operating heavy equipment for you haa Jenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Cribbs"
To:
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:01 AM
Subject: RE: Friday Funnie #2, Couldn't let this one go by!! [7:14809]
> Is this serious?
>
> I was under the impression that Ada Lovelace invented the binary counting
> system. I was also under the impression that John Atanasoff came up with
> the brilliant coding system that expressed everything in terms of two
> numbers for the methodology of measuring the current or lack of current in
> regards to computers way back in the 40's.
>
> Before that everyone kept trying to incorporate the base10 system in
> computers, which was a major headache and unsuccessfull, but that was in
the
> vacuum tube days.
>
> hmmm. Surely Microsoft doesn't think they can do this..Maybe this is a
joke
> however and I am just too d*** serious.
>
> Jenn
>
>
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> Natasha
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 10:19 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: OT: Friday Funnie #2, Couldn't let this one go by!! [7:14809]
>
>
> REDMOND, WA--In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but
> necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and
> exploitation by
> competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and
> zero Monday.
>
> With the patent, Microsoft's rivals are prohibited from manufacturing
> or selling products containing zeroes and ones--the mathematical
> building blocks of all
> computer languages and programs--unless a royalty fee of 10 cents per
> digit used is paid
> to the software giant.
>
>
> "Microsoft has been using the binary system of ones and zeroes ever
> since its inception in 1975," Gates told reporters. "For years, in the
> interest of the
> overall health of the computer industry, we permitted the free and
> unfettered use of our proprietary
> numeric systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the
> increasingly
> predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice
> but to seek
> compensation for the use of our numerals."
>
> A number of major Silicon Valley players, including Apple Computer,
> Netscape and Sun Microsystems, said they will challenge the Microsoft
> patent as
> monopolistic and anti-competitive, claiming that the 10-cent-per-digit
> licensing fee
> would bankrupt them instantly.
>
> "While, technically, Java is a complex system of algorithms used to
> create a platform-independent programming environment, it is, at its
> core, just
> a string of trillions of ones and zeroes," said Sun Microsystems CEO
> Scott McNealy, whose
> company created the Java programming environment used in many Internet
> applications.
> "The licensing fees we'd have to pay Microsoft every day would be
> approximately
> 327,000 times the total net worth of this company."
>
> "If this patent holds up in federal court, Apple will have no choice
> but to convert to analog," said Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs, "and I
> have serious doubts whether
> this company would be able to remain competitive selling pedal-operated
> computers
> running software off vinyl LPs."
>
> As a result of the Microsoft patent, many other companies have begun
> radically revising their product lines: Database manufacturer Oracle has
> embarked on a
> crash program to develop "an abacus for the next millennium." Cisco,
> whose
> communications and networking systems are also subject to Microsoft
> licensing fees, is
> working with top animal trainers on a chimpanzee-based
> message-transmission system.
> Hewlett-Packard is developing a revolutionary new steam-powered printer.
>
> Despite the swarm of protest, Gates is standing his ground,
> maintaining that ones and zeroes are the undisputed property of
> Microsoft.
>
>
>
> Above: Gates explains the new patent to Apple Computer's board of
> directors. "We will vigorously enforce our patents of these numbers, as
> they are
> legally ours," Gates said. "Among Microsoft's vast historical archives
> are Sanskrit
> cuneiform tablets from 1800 B.C. clearly showing ones and a symbol known
> as 'sunya,' or nothing.
> We also own: papyrus scrolls written by Pythagoras himself in which he
> explains the
> idea of singular notation, or 'one'; early tracts by Mohammed ibn Musa
> al Kwarizimi
> explaining the concept of al-sifr, or 'the cipher'; original
> mathematical manuscripts by
> Heisenberg, Einstein and Planck; and a signed first-edition copy of
> Jean-Paul Sartre's Being
> And Nothingness. Should the need arise, Microsoft will have no
> difficulty proving to
> the Justice Department or anyone else that we own the rights to these
> numbers."
>
> Added Gates: "My salary also has lots of zeroes. I'm the richest man
> in the world."
>
> According to experts, the full ramifications of Microsoft's patenting
> of one and zero have yet to be realized.
>
> "Because all integers and natural numbers derive from one and zero,
> Microsoft may, by extension, lay claim to ownership of all mathematics
> and logic
> systems, including Euclidean geometry, pulleys and levers, gravity, and
> the basic
> Newtonian principles of motion, as well as the concepts of existence and
> nonexistence," Yale
> University theoretical mathematics professor J. Edmund Lattimore said.
> "In other words,
> pretty much everything."
>
> Lattimore said that the only mathematical constructs of which
> Microsoft may not be able to claim ownership are infinity and
> transcendental numbers like pi.
> Microsoft lawyers are expected to file liens on infinity and pi this
> week.
>
> Microsoft has not yet announced whether it will charge a user fee to
> individuals who wish to engage in such mathematically rooted motions as
> walking, stretching
> and smiling.
>
> In an address beamed live to billions of people around the globe
> Monday, Gates expressed confidence that his company's latest move will,
> ultimately,
> benefit all humankind.
>
> "Think of this as a partnership," Gates said. "Like the ones and
> zeroes of the binary code itself, we must all work together to make the
> promise of the computer
> revolution a reality.
>
> As the world's richest, most powerful software company, Microsoft is
> number one. And you, the millions of consumers who use our products, are
> the zeroes."
> --
> Natasha Flazynski
> CCNA, MCSE
> http://www.ciscobot.com
> My Cisco information site.
> http://www.botbuilders.com
> Artificial Intelligence and Linux development
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