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Saying that the hard drive was invented 50 years ago implies that before that people used floppies. In fact, this was the first disk drive of any kind.

A customized home page, 2005 + a Blog, 1993 + Usenet 1979, + IRC, 1993 + E-mail, 1970 + a pile of adverts ...

A customized home page, 2005 + a Blog, 1993 + Usenet 1979, + IRC, 1993 + E-mail, 1970 + a pile of adverts ...

Call me a nitpicking bastard, but ETL stands for Extract, Transform, Load.
Definition here.

Other than that, I wholeheartedly agree. DTS would do this quite handily.
Probably not the cheapest option if there's no in-house MS-SQL install, though.

I don't get the joke.

The "garbage characters" after his comment are his UUEncoded porn files being stored on Slashdot.

Oh never mind. You wouldn't understand.

The "trojan" program attached to the file may have sent taxpayer information back to the source when the computer was turned on again.

McLaughlin said the department determined on May 15 that the computer was being improperly used and on May 23 that some data may have been captured and sent out.

Need we ask on what OS was this trojan so easly run?

"I had one of my guys write a Trojan that .. would .. email the findings back to us" "Slowly but surely info was being mailed back to him"

Need we ask on what OS was this trojan so easly run?

"I had one of my guys write a Trojan that .. would .. email the findings back to us" "Slowly but surely info was being mailed back to him"

This is so ironic. MS does a deal with Symantec for data-storage technologies, what ever that is, then cancels it and now Symantec is sueing them. If Symantec had any real technologies they would have devised a system for not getting 'viruses' same with Microsoft.

Meanwhile over on capitol hill ..

"Gates downplayed the idea of a technological fix to the spam problem. "There is no silver-bullet solution to the problem,"

No Mr. Gates, there is no Microsoft technological fix since it is Microsoft Windows that is the root cause of the problem. All those hacked Windows desktops awaiting use in the next phishing or DOS attack.

"Gates advocated .. new legislation, increased enforcement [and ] industry self-regulation."

No Mr. Gates, making hacking a twenty year felony crime is not going to fix it either. What they should do is make it a twenty year felony offince to sell such a defective OS such as the one you produce.

"While trumpeting Microsoft's investment in antispam technology"

Why not make an OS that cannot be hijacked by the next spamking .. now that would be real innovation® (Microsoft Corp).

This is so ironic. MS does a deal with Symantec for data-storage technologies, what ever that is, then cancels it and now Symantec is sueing them. If Symantec had any real technologies they would have devised a system for not getting 'viruses' same with Microsoft.

Meanwhile over on capitol hill ..

"Gates downplayed the idea of a technological fix to the spam problem. "There is no silver-bullet solution to the problem,"

No Mr. Gates, there is no Microsoft technological fix since it is Microsoft Windows that is the root cause of the problem. All those hacked Windows desktops awaiting use in the next phishing or DOS attack.

"Gates advocated .. new legislation, increased enforcement [and ] industry self-regulation."

No Mr. Gates, making hacking a twenty year felony crime is not going to fix it either. What they should do is make it a twenty year felony offince to sell such a defective OS such as the one you produce.

"While trumpeting Microsoft's investment in antispam technology"

Why not make an OS that cannot be hijacked by the next spamking .. now that would be real innovation® (Microsoft Corp).

This is so ironic. MS does a deal with Symantec for data-storage technologies, what ever that is, then cancels it and now Symantec is sueing them. If Symantec had any real technologies they would have devised a system for not getting 'viruses' same with Microsoft.

Meanwhile over on capitol hill ..

"Gates downplayed the idea of a technological fix to the spam problem. "There is no silver-bullet solution to the problem,"

No Mr. Gates, there is no Microsoft technological fix since it is Microsoft Windows that is the root cause of the problem. All those hacked Windows desktops awaiting use in the next phishing or DOS attack.

"Gates advocated .. new legislation, increased enforcement [and ] industry self-regulation."

No Mr. Gates, making hacking a twenty year felony crime is not going to fix it either. What they should do is make it a twenty year felony offince to sell such a defective OS such as the one you produce.

"While trumpeting Microsoft's investment in antispam technology"

Why not make an OS that cannot be hijacked by the next spamking .. now that would be real innovation® (Microsoft Corp).

The column view (browser view) has been in NeXTSTEP since 1989. Apple acquired NeXT in the mid-90s. I do not say that Apple holds patent on it nor invented it (Xerox Smalltalk class browser?). I just want to say, that the column has been here for a while and it was somehow related to Apple too.

Moreover! Filtering data using a column view is also quite old. It has been used in data-warehousing as way of drilling-down. In the music player it is nothing more, nothing less: it is drilling-down through your song database. Just ask Bill Inmon or Ralph Kimball :-) It is the same to drill-down by region, store and date or by genre, artist and album. They are just different terms.

You forgot: DTCP/IP... otherwise known as DRM built into the TCP/IP stack.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/isochronous.html

Whew! that was close

:)

MjM

They probably are reffering to this cable; an Intel specification:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/HDCP.html

No matter how nasty worms get a user still has to execute them for his/her PC to become infected

If, on the other hand, you use Google to search for 1u, the very first link gives a nice, detailed explanation on exactly what 1U means.

...written by the programmer who creates the code for the program.

Wikipedia agrees, apparently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor

CNR stands for "Communication and Networking Riser", an interface standard developed by Intel that mostly flopped.

Link 1

Link 2

Oh wait, is that not the TLA (three-letter acronym) that the submitter intended? Should have specified then, instead of assuming that everyone know what the hell "Click-n-Run" is.

1. Business purchasers are consumers. Deal with it. IBM has millions of TPM systems deployed with software that actually makes use of the TPM module. Using your definition, educational institutions and the publishing industry are also not "mainstream consumers." Frankly, you're also ignoring the large numbers of individuals that buy IBM laptops because they're high quality and nigh indestructible.

That's not what the "consumer market" means. "Consumer market" doesn't mean all people who are "consumers" in general. The mainstream consumer marketplace is home and individual buyers, period. It is not institutional purchasers. It is not educational institutions. It is not business. It is not enterprise. It is not professional markets. That's what people mean when they say "consumer marketplace". And it's hard to take new technologies into the consumer marketplace because it's so diverse. It's much easier to introduce them in rigidly controlled and centrally funded and managed enterprise IT environments.

2. The number of Windows based systems with installed TPM modules dwarfs anything that Apple has shipped in the last few months, even if you exclude IBM. Dell sells them. Fujitsu sells them (E8000, S7000, P1500, ST50XX. B6000, T4000). (Here's a whole list of manufacturers that have shipped TPM modules in Windows based machines.

No. This is the managed business marketplace. Places with centralized purchasing and requirements. Again, see above.

3. Really, knock off the drugs. Intel invented USB. Intel pushed USB. Intel rammed USB down every whitebox manufacturer's throat well before Apple introduced its USB keyboards and mouse with those candy colored iMacs in January 2002. I have Microsoft USB keyboards that are older than that. Roundup of USB optical mice from August 2000.

Wow, guess you must have missed a few years, there. Apple most certainly didn't first ship USB in 2002. It was May 1998. Four years earlier than you allege. Four *years*. Therefore, your link from 2000 is meaningless. In fact, *all* Apple computers have had USB keyboards and mice exclusively since January 1999. And one of many anecdotal examples:

Did You Know...
USB was introduced in 1997 but the technology didn't catch on until the introduction of the Apple iMac in 1998 --ironic because USB was developed by several PC-focused companies, including Compaq, DEC, IBM, Intel and Microsoft.

The *reason* this happened is because Apple was the first company - and still, in 2006, one of few - to be willing to completely ditch legacy technologies to move the industry forward.

Now that I've addressed the specific points therein, I'd appreciate external references to things that give sales numbers, introduction dates, and other points that prove that Apple got either of those technologies on the market before Windows PC suppliers. Otherwise, have a nice day, and seek counseling.

Well, your first two points are addressed because of your continuing misunderstanding of what the consumer market it. This isn't just what I call it; that's what the industry calls it.

And you were off by only 4 years on USB.

As to 802.11, for example, Apple delivered AirPort in mid-1999. NO end-user consumer machines had 802.11, and it was something that you had to get a minimum $300 PC Card and a $1000 (Lucent RG-1000) access point to use. I.e., totally out of the reach of home/individual users, not to mention was not easy to set up and would have been horrid on PCs (and still was, until really XP SP1, several years later). Yet Apple's access point was easy to set up and use for an end user, and was under $300. The wireless card for the client was under $100. Dell didn't even ship integrated wireless for a full *two years* after Apple announced it.

Apple shippe

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid /1999041209131106

Care to argue with Symantec on the definition?

How the hell did My above post get modded 'troll' anyways? There's your proof. Oh, need more proof?

How... http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2004/ virus.asp
About... http://www.computer-lynx.com/a-virus-or-worm.htm
THIS??? http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/eac/knowl edgebaseAnswer/0,295199,sid63_gci980535,00.html

Someone needs to go back to computer pre-school. I knew the difference in those 15 years ago, when I was 8. Tool.

>I think the cd levy thing is true in Canada, but I've never heard about it in the US before. Can someone provide a source?

The US has it too. "Data" CDs don't have the tax. "Music" CDs do. The difference is one bit in the header, and a few bucks at checkout time.

The name of the law taxing music CDs (and DAT tapes, etc) is AHRA - Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, an amendment to the U.S. federal Copyright Act of 1976. It's often called the "DAT tax", but it applies to music CD-Rs too.

http://drmwatch.webopedia.com/TERM/A/AHRA.html

http://www.boycott-riaa.com/facts/truth

http://www.eff.org/cafe/cafe_case_analysis.html

"Am I just being naive, or does anyone have experience with outsourcing small-scale sysadmin tasks?""

That's what ASP's are for.

A filesystem format ("high-level" format) of a hard drive is much different than a low-level format.

Even a worthless A+ certification will teach you that much.

You do not even need to zero-fill the hard drive (which is NOT a low-level format) to wipe out a virus. If you reformat it at the OS level (again, a "high level" format) you're removing the FAT/MFT/inodes/btree pointers to the files on the disk, and without those pointers the data is pretty much inaccessible by the operating system, unless there is software in place to specifically go to each sector and read it - and because you've removed the pointers to the files that can kickstart that process when you do the reformat/reinstall, there is no way in hell that any such hidden virus code is going to be executed - you've removed the possibility.

Also: resorting to reformat/reinstall at the drop of a hat is a sure sign of incompetence. $.02 and then some. SOME spyware or viruses which include rootkits or other exploits are so intrusive that a reformat/reinstall may be recommended but it's not going to be every case. Hell, even Windows' "System Volume Information" (restore points) can be purged of infection by changing permissions on the directory and then scanning them- or you can even turn off System Restore to simply blow away the restore points and prevent automatic reinstallation of the scumware

Read. Learn. Stop scamming customers with technical terms you don't understand.

Actually, Moore's Law relates to the number of transistors per unit area, not processing power or clock speed. The corrolary to Moore's Law indicates that the price per transistor halves every 18 months. Nothing is ever said about clock speed or processing power. Check this link for the actual wording. By the way, Moore's Law still seems to be holding, and with the proliferation of multi-core computing and whatnot, I expect Moore's Law will hold for a while to come. The difference now is that we will start to make better use of multiple layers on a single piece of silicon, instead of working towards smaller transistors. We are, indeed, starting to bump up against the laws of physics with the size of transistors, but we're only starting to explore the benefits of creative packaging.

The EU just wants to stick it to ANY USA company

In many markets European companies are loosing or lost to foreign companies. Take the wine industry, European (France for the most part) was the world leader. When foreign (US and Australia) got better what happened? Laws were imposed saying that unless the wine was made in that region, you could not use that name. So the type of grape used was what is the type of wine instead of the region it came from. France stuck it to themselves with all their screwed up laws regulating the wine industry.

Now the EU sees MS as being too big for any EU computer company to compete. Make a better operating system and let the public (people everywhere) decide if they want to use it.

The basis of this is interoperability (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/interoperability. html ) If another operating system cannot read and write to a Windows Server like the ruling says then the EU administrators are not doing their job. We have *nix, and windows servers here that all clients (windows, apple, Linux (5 flavors), and sun workstations all read and write to daily without any problem. MS doesn't make the hardware (besides keyboards and mice) so what is next fining Segate for hard drives, Plextor for CD/DVD drives?

If the EU says I want to use ABC word processor to read and write to that MS word file that is a different story. But that is NOT what the ruling says. The ruling says Windows Servers NOT the office product. The EU wants all of the windows source code to write open source based ways of doing the same thing. Hell they'll just probably just recompile it in GCC then be done with it.

Having alternative to Windows.. wait there are alternative to Windows products, use them if you want to. Get people to save with alternative formats in office (they are in there, use something other then .doc, .rtf., .txt, .html, what ever word perfect is I forget)

That or the anti MS people are running the show and want the source code to hack it apart faster then they do now.

GO VIRUS writers GO!! Get your hands on windows source code!!

NCSA Mosaic ran on Windows 3.1 (with Win32s) (and later on Windows 95), X-Window and Mac. It was the first web browser I ever used (that was in 1994).

By today's standards it's a piece-of-crap, but back then it was quite a marvel.

It was not an editor, just a web browser. It's still around for historical purposes and if you can get it to work, you'll see just how far we've come.

Anything multimedia wise was handled by "helper" applications that would launch when you clicked on the applicable hyperlink.

Nothing was embedded in a web page (at first). HTML was in it's infancy, so web pages with ordinary fonts with no color and pages with plain backgrounds were the norm (till someone figured out how to make an image file into a web page background, that is - then everyone went nuts with it).

This and this are examples of what your typical web site looked like in 1995-1996.

And who can forget the famous and long-defunct "Trojan Room Coffee Machine"?

Please tell me this is a joke....? If not, then you certainly haven't met my good friend google, and most certainly you haven't seen the inside of an Introduction to Networking classroom:

webopedia on the OSI Model
wikipedia on the OSI Model

The OSI model makes no account for power or power cords. Under the model, Layer 1 describes the physical medium upon which electronic bits (layer 2 frames) will be carried. Layer 1 devices (like hubs) usually depend on power, so we like to *joke* that the power cord is Layer 0. Nothing works if its not plugged in!

If you were just joking then I'm sorry for the stuffy reply. But if you're not joking, everyone who might believe you needs to follow the links above.

Okay, since you asked for it: HDCP: High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection. It is a protocol for encrypting the transmission in the cable between your DVD player, etc. and your television set. This capability will be included in the upcoming version of Windows. I have no doubt that disc manufacturers will require this soon enough. Maybe it will start out only requiring it for high-definition content, but eventually anyone without a trusted display path will be locked out.

Okay, now you are smoking something. Why don't you look up Multi-User and understand that Windows still isn't as Multi-User as UNIX is. Sure, the latest versions of Windows Server 2003 do allow multiple users to access a GUi simultaneously, but that development is still quite in it's infancy compared to the 30+ years of UNIX performing that quite admirably.

 

This is an application problem, not an OS problem.

 

An application program with components that ship with the operating system from the operating system vendor. So, I suppose that is sort of right, (If you want to be very obtuse about it) of course under UNIX you don't have those problems when using sudo or su into root and then running an application.

 

Yes, SYSTEM is about as close as you get on Windows to 'root' on unix. What's your point ?

 

The point is that if a malicious application elevates itself to "SYSTEM" level privileges, the only recourse is to wipe the machine completely. You are effectively 'rooted' and there is no method of truly protecting that level of the OS as an Administrator, since you are effectively cut out from it.

 

You have NFI what you're talking about.

 

Then enlighten me.

Does this remind anyone else of FMDs [webopedia.com]? Didn't those kinda fail completely?

http://isp.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CLEC.html

Hey, clueless! Even the RBOCs are CLECs when they compete against each other. SBC is a CLEC and it makes TWTC look like a hotdog stand. Level3 is based in Denver just like Time Warner is and even though they're struggling bigtime right now, they are still way way way more successful than those TWTC idiots.

In case anyone else is wondering what COTS means:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/COTS.html

POTS

Uhm, "bus sniffing," aka "bus snooping" is pretty much required on any multiprocessor setup to keep the caches coherent. Either that, or you have software-managed cache coherency across the multiple CPUs, which isn't the norm in x86-land.

According to folklore, the term thunk was coined by the developers of the Algol-60 programming language, who realized late one night that the data type of parameters could be known with a little forethought by the compiler. That is, by the time the compiler processed the parameters, it had already thought of (thunked) the data types. (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/thunk.html)

Is it that late at night for you to thunk that?:p

Moore's law states the number of transistor's per square inch will double every 18 months. What does this have to do with speed of a vehicle, especially since it doesn't even have anything to do with the speed of a processor? According to this Moore's law can also be interpreted to be a doubling of data storage every 18 months. But that doesn't have anything to do with going faster.

It's not a virus. It is a Trojan horse. A program which claims to be something beneficial but in reality just messes your computer up.

"Don't download and install it."

I'm sure if it's listed as "PSP Trojan Horse - turn your PSP into a useless brick" - nobody would download it.

"device that responds to sensory input"

"A program that runs automatically without human intervention. Typically, a robot is endowed with some artificial intelligence so that it can react to different situations it may encounter. Two common types of robots are agents and spiders."

"the world is about to change this week"

Yes, accessing applications on a remote server. That's certainly a new, world-changing idea.

Except that it isn't.

Sorry to be off topic, but
MAC == Media Access Control acronym
Mac = short name for Apple Computer's Macintosh

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/MAC_address.html

Mod me down, looser (sp.)!

Moore's Law does not make a statement about performance. It makes a statement about the number of transistors in a certain area.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/Moores_Law.html

You were doing ok until the "I kid"
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Softw are/2002/MonitorHemispheres.asp

Now then, here's where I was coming from: define difference between internet and world wide web:

"The World Wide Web, or simply Web, is a way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet. It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet."
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/ Web_vs_Internet.asp

Which I take to mean "web is to internet as window manager is to desktop environment". Yeah, but show me a case of the latter that works without the former!

Next, some prior history of computer-based communications before what we mostly refer to as "The World-Wide Web" (tm):

"Around the same time another change was happening in the SGML community. Bell Atlantic Engineers, in 1987, introduced an online service that featured graphic representations of office documents, in color, exchanged over the Internet. They had two options: employ a simplified generic SGML DTD as their exchange format or use the editorial-based IMI format. They picked the wrong option perhaps one of the top five worst decisions ever made! Another product, designed for optical media publishing, called Guide from Owl, Ltd. introduced a simple four-tag SGML DTD that could be used to interpret any document into their retrieval program. Although neither of these first simplified SGML applications survived, some students at CERN were paying attention, wrote their own simplified tag set, the hyper text markup language, developed a browser and gave it away! It caught on and the worldwide web was born."
http://www.media4theworld.com/Papers/Symbolic_logi c_4.htm

At this point, considering that, at the very worst, I've been following a different version of the story from the one other people follow, I say everybody who flamed me about this owes me a beer.

Now, if the claim was "Mr. Berners-Lee was the first to publish a page on the internet using HTML formatting on what later became the World-Wide Web (tm)", I could go, "Ooooooh, THAT first web page!" I mean, of *course* he was the first to use the HTML language he was writing, if for nothing else than to check for bugs! Incidentally, HTML wasn't even HIS first foray into electronic document formatting - that would be Enquire, and when he worked on *that*, he didn't even know the term "hypertext" existed...kind of like how Linus Torvalds unwittingly supplied the GNU movement with the free kernel they needed without ever hearing of GNU. That would explain where my repressed memories of reading documents in something called "hypertext" (which, at the time, I associated with "hypercard") on an 80's-era Mac came from. In any case, to me it's all Ford vs Chevy, Coke vs Pepsi. XML, SHTML, HML, potatoe, pahtahto. ASCII text with funny dinguses in it to tell a program how to display the regular text. A means for graphic representations of office documents, in color, to be exchanged over the Internet. Of which HTML is merely a subset.

As for "The Web"(tm) as opposed to any old web, I guess back when I was a zitty kid with friends named Poindexter, Eugene, and Huey, and we looked at a bunch of teletypes connected together and called it a "web network", turns out that that wasn't such a common expression. What, didn't *anybody* else here subscribe to Telex?

To heck with this. I don't care who started what, anymore. And I *hate* HTML!

For those, like me, that aren't in the know:
CLEC = competitive local exchange carrier
ILEC = incumbent local exchange carrier

An ILEC is a telephone company that was providing local service when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted. Compare with CLEC, a company that competes with the already established local telephone business.

(from http://isp.webopedia.com/TERM/I/ILEC.html)

RMS worked 15 years full-time on things that he gives away for free? I think you're misinformed. Actually, the majority of the code for GNU was taken from IP obtained illegally from SCO. After all, there isn't any UNIX code in Linux (it has been proven by science), so obviously the SCO lawsuit had to come from somewhere, right?

Here are some definitions of proprietary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/p/proprietary.htmlht tp://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#Propri etarySoftware
The term "Proprietary Software" was first used by RMS, and he has defined it as seen on the last link.
I'm unimpressed by your usage of terms defined by someone for their own personal use. That's like me saying that I define "chocolate" to be anything that is blue. Uninteresting and completely irrelevant. Yawn.

Also, in the future, if you want to post to a site like this, I suggest you master use of the "period," denoted by the symbol ".". The nice thing about periods is that they break sentences up. I swear, my eyes were panting by the time I got done reading your useless post. English is the language of the scientific world; learn it if you want to be taken seriously and not as the GNU/FSF puppet you clearly are.

...oh, and it's still Linux :)

I Shoudln't reply to trolls, but here it goes anyway, please try to READ what i way, it seems you are replying to a different post.
You are telling me ALSA is not portable, first, that's not true, many drivers from alsa has been ported, second, i said that BESIDES alsa, xmms can use MANY other output systems, that they are plugins to XMMS, alsa is just one more plugin, it supports others that HAS BEEN ported, and you can write a new plugin to use the windows sound api.
FYI I have written code under GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, IBM-DOS, OS/2 ...
Linus just written the kernel, most of the other important parts of the system are GNU (the compiler, the C Library, the shell, and 90% of Unix cli tools are far more important than just the kernel). Linus worked half-time on the kernel for about 3 years, and then the GNU comunity written most of what this kernel is today, RMS coded full-time for more than 15 years, and payed other cothers to code fulltime for the GNU OS and he could write the kernel because of the existance of a big comunity of hackers that helped him, that comunity was the product of years of rms's work.

Here are some definitions of proprietary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/p/proprietary.htmlht tp://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#Propri etarySoftware
The term "Proprietary Software" was first used by RMS, and he has defined it as seen on the last link.

Baud is NOT bits per second.

Baud is SIGNALS per second. Modems haven't had a 1bit = 1baud correlation for a LONG time.

Picture it like this... if you can signal a 1 or a 0 on the line, then you have 1 baud = 1 bit. But if you can signal a 0,1,2 or 3 on the line, then you can fit TWO bits into each "baud".

Last time I checked into it, most modems were using at LEAST four states per signal.

Here's the first link on a google search for Baud:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/baud.html

Now wait a second. 130+ OLED's and the controlling electronics are not going to be expensive. The controlling electronics statement can be easily discounted as false with some basic thinking: an average monitor has about 1024*1280 = 1 310 750 pixels (about 1.3*10^6 pixels) that require control. From the pictures supplied by Art. Lebedev, I counted square keys as being about 35 pixels across. This gives a single key 35^2 = 1225 pixels times around 140 keys = only 171 500 pixels to control for the keyboard. Multiply that by 2 if you feel my estimate is off, giving 343 000 pixels to control. This is about _one quarter_ of the number of pixels a normal graphics card has to deal with. Controlling only 1/4th the number of pixels will make the card at least 1/4 of the price. As for the former, (the cost of OLED's) do note that, as quoted here (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/OLED.html) OLED technology is less expensive than LCD: "It [OLED technology] is beginning to replace LCD technology in handheld devices such as PDAs and cellular phones because the technology is brighter, thinner, faster, lighter than LCDs, uses less power, offers higher contrast and is cheaper to manufacture." The cost of this keyboard will be set by what people are willing to pay, not the technology that is contained within it.

Here is a good definition if you still do not get it: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PC.html

With Intel in Apple's future, this might change. For right now, Apple is not in the PC business and has never been.

"Are you saying Apple never built a personal computer?"

The PC abbreviation, especially capitalized, refers only to the type that started with the IBM-PC and clones. Due to confusion, it is best to say that Apple makes microcomputers, not "personal computers".