Next time, look at the price gap between the cheapest kid's meal and the one that swaps the burger for the 99c burger. Typically, it's 99c or more . . .
I saw that--but it sure beat the hard drive I had attached to an Osborne running CP/M . . . (which in turn beat the daylights out of the floppies).
And then there was the corvus hard drive I sold for Apple ][ way back when . . . $5k, 5mb, appearing as something like 35 diskette drives on the same controller . . Oh, and it was an 8" drive, iirc . . . the price for a hard drive on a Superbrain was similar, and it also ran CP/M--which had absolutely no concept of directories, although you could use usr0 to usr15 to only see some of the files (with the minor issue that all 16, one (two?) of which could see them all, shared a namespace . ..)
Software is fundamentally a copyrighted expression, though. Changing it without creating a derived work would be difficult in the case of an operating system.
The//e's 80 column mode was that screwball bank-switching between characters of some of the 80 column cards of the time.
But if the//e inherited from Franklin, my memory that the Franklin pirated the ][+ rather than the//e *must* be correct (barring either company having time travel technology, of course:)
All of the mustang variants I'm aware of are done through cooperation and permission with Ford.
It's also in the nature of a car to be modified by its owners and resold--the car is primarily a functional item, rather than an expression. If you built something else with the same *lines* as a mustang, ford lawyers would be parachuting in:)
>I'll say that IMHO every MacOS prior to 10 sucked pretty badly).
Versions 1 to 7.1 were mostly OK.
I was handed 7.5 install disks for a university machine back when it was current. I really can't comment on whether or not it *would* have been ok, as it slowed down the machine so horribly that I couldn't get anything done. I was back to 7.1 later the same day.
OK, now that I think of it, the delay while the machine thought before the Imagewriter printed the next line under System 1 was annoying, but 2 came out quite quickly. That folders didn't exist for applications on 400k disks was also frustratign . . .
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you want that, wire me a retainer:)
A few years ago, an artist was buying barbies and modifying them. My favorite was "Trailer Park Barbie," with a cigarette hanging from her mouth, a baby on her hip, and a voice bubble saying, "My daddy says I'm the best kisser in the trailer park!"
Mattel was not amused, and did successfully shut these down.
If you pasted commentary into the Harry Potter book, my inclination (though I'd need to research before standing by this) is that you'd be ok, while if you pasted in paragraphs changing the story and sold your version, you would be in trouble.
Unlike the Apple ][ clones, the Mac clones *were* authorized. Apple didn't so much pull the plug as to insist that fast clones pay a royalty reflecting their share of the R&D costs. Substantially all of the clones were built with apple designed boards, designed for the lower end. Several cloners boosted these to be competitive with the upper end machines from apple, leaving apple to recover all of the R&D costs from its own faster machines. When it insisted on higher royalties for high-end machines using the new designs, there were no takers, and the clones died off. Contrary to popular misrepresentations, Apple didn't simply cancel the clones.
Another example of why slashdot needs a "just plain wrong" moderation category.
Franklin did *not* have Apple's permission. They simply duplicated the ROMs and much of the DOS. Apple sued and prevailed on copyright grounds. This was a groundbreaking copyright case; Franklin pretty much asserted that no protection could exist for non-human-readable code (which had been accepted by previous courts)
If memory serves, the Franklin plagiarized the ][+, not the//e
Here in Las Vegas, we have pinball museum. I think it's 80 games in the place at any given time, out of their inventory; they're rotated. These go from all the way back to brand new games.
There are a couple of 80's video games, too.
It's self supporting (an awful lot of quarters:), wit a bit of excess that gets donated elsewhere.
It's in the strip mall at the NW corner of Pecos & Tropicana if you're in town, next to the theater.
Although rare, there are times when GOTO is the cleanest way out.
I recall being stunned to run across one of them writing the code for my dissertation, and noting that I was going through a *lot* of code to avoid a single, simple GOTO. Yes, I could have avoided it, but under the circumstances, the GOTO was much cleaner.
Oddly, I don't remember the circumstances; just my sheer amazement that such circumstances actually existed.
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>a bit of a shock to realize that my mobile phone has the exact same screen size as my first computer.
That would be scary . . . two hexadecimal digits plus an LED . . .
then again, more than enough to identify the calls I care about.
Having to use toggle switched to dial, though, would be a pain . . . :)
hawk
That's not rare, though.
Next time, look at the price gap between the cheapest kid's meal and the one that swaps the burger for the 99c burger. Typically, it's 99c or more . . .
hawk
>I come on. Is it really that likely?
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I saw that--but it sure beat the hard drive I had attached to an Osborne running CP/M . . . (which in turn beat the daylights out of the floppies).
And then there was the corvus hard drive I sold for Apple ][ way back when . . . $5k, 5mb, appearing as something like 35 diskette drives on the same controller . . Oh, and it was an 8" drive, iirc . . . the price for a hard drive on a Superbrain was similar, and it also ran CP/M--which had absolutely no concept of directories, although you could use usr0 to usr15 to only see some of the files (with the minor issue that all 16, one (two?) of which could see them all, shared a namespace . . .)
hawk
Software is fundamentally a copyrighted expression, though. Changing it without creating a derived work would be difficult in the case of an operating system.
hawk
The //e's 80 column mode was that screwball bank-switching between characters of some of the 80 column cards of the time.
But if the //e inherited from Franklin, my memory that the Franklin pirated the ][+ rather than the //e *must* be correct (barring either company having time travel technology, of course :)
hawk
All of the mustang variants I'm aware of are done through cooperation and permission with Ford.
It's also in the nature of a car to be modified by its owners and resold--the car is primarily a functional item, rather than an expression. If you built something else with the same *lines* as a mustang, ford lawyers would be parachuting in :)
hawk
>You download the .tart.gz or .tar.bz2 source packages and build it. \
At last, what the world has been waiting for: a language for bimbos and airheads! :)
hawk
>Good to see it move to doing things the Right Way
They converted it to Fortran??? :)
hawk
presumably, that it is not arousing to neanderthals, homo erectus, and so forth . . .
hawk
>I'll say that IMHO every MacOS prior to 10 sucked pretty badly).
Versions 1 to 7.1 were mostly OK.
I was handed 7.5 install disks for a university machine back when it was current. I really can't comment on whether or not it *would* have been ok, as it slowed down the machine so horribly that I couldn't get anything done. I was back to 7.1 later the same day.
OK, now that I think of it, the delay while the machine thought before the Imagewriter printed the next line under System 1 was annoying, but 2 came out quite quickly. That folders didn't exist for applications on 400k disks was also frustratign . . .
hawk
trademark.
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you want that, wire me a retainer :)
A few years ago, an artist was buying barbies and modifying them. My favorite was "Trailer Park Barbie," with a cigarette hanging from her mouth, a baby on her hip, and a voice bubble saying, "My daddy says I'm the best kisser in the trailer park!"
Mattel was not amused, and did successfully shut these down.
If you pasted commentary into the Harry Potter book, my inclination (though I'd need to research before standing by this) is that you'd be ok, while if you pasted in paragraphs changing the story and sold your version, you would be in trouble.
hawk, esq.
You believed the "contacts" bit?
Wow.
*everyone* knows that it was to make the stripper's convention possible . . . :)
hawk
p.s. Of course, conspiracy theorists say that it's because the tsa's hiring division couldn't keep up with the applications for inspectors . . .
p.p.s. Other conspiracy theorists think that this is the real reason that silicone implants can be sold again
It's marketing.
Given that Coors, Miller, and Bud have been selling it a "beer" for so long, it was simply time for a new name . . .
hawk
err, shouldn't that be 67hp?
or is it 640hp . . .
hawk
Unlike the Apple ][ clones, the Mac clones *were* authorized. Apple didn't so much pull the plug as to insist that fast clones pay a royalty reflecting their share of the R&D costs. Substantially all of the clones were built with apple designed boards, designed for the lower end. Several cloners boosted these to be competitive with the upper end machines from apple, leaving apple to recover all of the R&D costs from its own faster machines. When it insisted on higher royalties for high-end machines using the new designs, there were no takers, and the clones died off. Contrary to popular misrepresentations, Apple didn't simply cancel the clones.
hawk
Another example of why slashdot needs a "just plain wrong" moderation category.
Franklin did *not* have Apple's permission. They simply duplicated the ROMs and much of the DOS. Apple sued and prevailed on copyright grounds. This was a groundbreaking copyright case; Franklin pretty much asserted that no protection could exist for non-human-readable code (which had been accepted by previous courts)
If memory serves, the Franklin plagiarized the ][+, not the //e
hawk
Here in Las Vegas, we have pinball museum. I think it's 80 games in the place at any given time, out of their inventory; they're rotated. These go from all the way back to brand new games.
There are a couple of 80's video games, too.
It's self supporting (an awful lot of quarters :), wit a bit of excess that gets donated elsewhere.
It's in the strip mall at the NW corner of Pecos & Tropicana if you're in town, next to the theater.
Although rare, there are times when GOTO is the cleanest way out.
I recall being stunned to run across one of them writing the code for my dissertation, and noting that I was going through a *lot* of code to avoid a single, simple GOTO. Yes, I could have avoided it, but under the circumstances, the GOTO was much cleaner.
Oddly, I don't remember the circumstances; just my sheer amazement that such circumstances actually existed.
hawk
And if you're one of us that started using Word in 1984, you probably ran away screaming several versions ago . . .
hawk
>Look at France.
Oh, that's *just* what we need. As the load goes goes up, reactors start surrendering . . . :)
>This sometimes produces flame wars and trolls, sure.
Once upon a time, net.flame was actually an entertaining read.
Then again, this was back in the days of about thirty newsgroups . . .
hawk, who badly misses the old usenet
>But every web forum sucks as a web forum,
>this is a hard and fast rule.
Really?
Do you maintain that this would apply to a forum on Microsoft vacuum cleaners? I highly doubt it . . .
hawkk
>This use-case is one where I would not recommend emacs.
Well, yeah.
Most of us figured that out when he said he needed to edit . . . :)
More seriously, the obvious solution is to add a usb adaptor to a Tandy 100/102 . . .
hawk, off to find his 102
If Barr wins, the legislature can simply change the law.
In fact, I'd expect that a draft request has already been submitted to legislative counsel.
hawk, esq.