Well, the good news is that "soon" this foolish will be over. The patent is due to expire on either 10-Dec-2002 (17 years from granting) or 20-Jun-2003 (20 from filing) (depending on which rule is in effect) http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='4,558,302'.WKU.&OS=PN/4,558,302&RS=PN/4,558,302

Thanks guys

Hmm, reminds me of the FoxTrot comic strip from a week or two ago..

Well, It's not quite that big a deal... I mean, they use the word "ball" a lot in the Olympics, and that means pretty much the same thing in the US.

Oh, and the JAVA SOLUTIONS site is at www.cuj.com/jav

I wonder how many people DIDN'T download it for any various reason: (a) not interested (b) doing real work (c) consider it vaporware (d) too beta-ish (e) management doesn't car

You buy outdated computer/math books for your nostalgia collection... which really just doesn't seem to be what it used to...

Hah! Wish I had the time, the spare $1500, and the luck in managing to actually score a ticket. cheers, Chris Maunde

Hello! I second with this. Chris Sells would be very good. Slavo.

Well, actually it was tougher than one might imagine. Yes, the three guys were from Wintellect, but one of them has almost nothing about him posted on the web site. He's not listed in any of the course materials, nor does he appear to have a picture there. So there really were two tough names to come up with, not just one.

>> If you know where it is suppoosed to be.. << Trust me, you don't want to go there.... PL/I has the annoying behavior of whenever it finds an error, it would print an error message, and then GUESS at what it though you meant. It almost always guessed wrong. Anyway, what would you WANT it to do? Just silently ignore the error? But what if it's guess is not what you actually wanted. (Using an undecalred datat type will erroneously give you that message). Should it get an error, but continue? But then, your correctly working program would still produce dozens of errors. You'll have to fix them eventually. Should it edit your source code? But again, what if it's view of the problem isn't the real trouble?

That's one of the bugs I mentioned ;) [Forum Guidelines]