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> Ffej wrote:
> And lets all remember that Xerox stole the icon concept from work done
> by Egyptians thousands of years ago (who, in turn, probably got it
> from cave paintings). The sad, brutal truth is that given how many
> people have lived before us, the concept of an "original ideal" today
> is almost absurd. Everything any culture on the planet has today is
> ALL built on somebody else's work.
3 Mar 2000 14:37:57 GMT Werner <werner_at_cubbyhole.com> wrote:
>
> Here's another Microsoft "first" for you too, symbolic links!
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp
>
>
> In comp.sys.sun.misc Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam> wrote:
>
>> Shewt! They finally are able to do what I was doing in ORACLE since
>> V6. Amazing. That's progress! I'm stunned.
>> Of course, they had to rename it into "federated database" when >> everybody else calls it a distributed view. Makes it sound like a new >> technology. And all the idiots out there will go "Wow!"...
>> Cheers >> Nuno Souto >> nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam >> http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html
-- http://www.cooper.com.hkReceived on Wed Mar 08 2000 - 00:00:00 CST