PATENT WARNING: Batch System Calls

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Schol-R-LEA wrote:I don't think
Well, I always find it to be a good idea to do so before I type, so that I don't embarrass myself.
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True, true, but so far I have not shown any ability in that arena. My objection to Artificial Intelligence has always been that we should confirm the existence of natural intelligence first, and so far, the evidence is against it.
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Hi,
Candy wrote:How is this idea not just a display list, like OpenGL used to have before 2.0 - ie, it's been deprecated already! - or like any window manager since Windows 2.0 or so? Or like TCL/TK? Or dozens of other examples?
The general concept of sending a list of steps (rather than sending one step at a time) probably dates back to early hand-writing and cooking recipes (if not before); and would've been very obvious (sending "10 steps to bake a cake" as 10 separate pieces of paper would be very counter-intuitive) even to people that weren't "trained in the art of programming" back then.

Sadly, patents don't work like that.


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Schol-R-LEA wrote:I don't think you get the idea here.
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I stand corrected.
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