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"I cut my son's hair too, by the way. It takes a bit getting used to, as his hair is different from mine. But a bit of practice goes a long way."

Flowbee?

The same people that revolutionized hair care of course. Just imagine the "product synergy." You're on a business trip and your child needs a hair cut. A few mouse clicks later, his hair looks great and there's a warm PopTart waiting for him in kitchen.

Is a flobotomist someone who uses Flowbees to cut hair?

Hmmm ... did you mean this? Yep, it's still around.

Sorry, since the article's link was /.'d I had to find something to do until the next article is released.

It was called the Flowbee and it's still around. You can buy it here

For the record, patents protect inventions (such as the Flowbee, and not ideas such as gravity (Newton), metaphysics (Descartes). I imagine that since Pascal was producing adding machines, he likely would've liked protection for his invention. The Wright brothers did not get a patent for flying, or the Bernoulli Effect, they got a patent for a machine that performed these functions. As for Mozart & Beethoven, this is not patent law- it's copyright. And yes, those two were quite wealthy back in their time.

There are people in the third world right now who are laughing at your patent laws. They're selling copies of Windows and MS Office in the streets for pennies on the dollar. Heck, they're laughing at them right here in the US. Music download has become an addictive pasttime for some people.

This is copyright law again, as the underlying issue is protecting an original work of authorship. I agree with you on this part. The copyright holders in the US are doing a terrible job of adapting to new technologies. As for patents in the Third World, like pharaceuticals, that's messed up as well. Drugs are needed in certain areas, and should be available- but companies still need to make money.

> That's great, but i'm still waiting for a
> flow-matic front-end

So get a Flobee.

All this talk about streamlining an OS and booting off a CD-ROM..When the better solution is to buy a cheap console system that does all this streamlining for you. The OS is right on an Integrated Circuit.

I agree a high power gaming machine is better to use but that costs big cash and that's something I don't have too much of. If I wanted my PC to be a console gaming system all I would have connected to it would be a controller and a monitor.This won't work because without a keyboard i couldn't get out of my bios.

Using a PC as a Game Console is like using a Vacuum as a Hairdresser, Just because it can do it doesn't mean it does a better job.