In the history of computing OLPC was a bit like how xerox palo alto research center (PARC) pushed the envelope of user interface design and inspired the first Apple Computer Macintosh and
People keep repeating this, but it just isn't true.
Apple had mockups of the Lisa interface long before the famous visit. It would already have windows and a bit-mapped interface.
Yes, decisions made by PARC on theirs and seen on the visit influenced the dial Lisa design, but it was in *NO* way, sense, or form the origin of those.
PARC itself had drawn on the work of one Jeff Raskin, particularly the Master's thesis, which had laid out the notions of an interface with a bit-mapped display, pointing devices, and such. And Raskin worked at . . . yes, you guessed it: Apple.
These could all but be direct from Henry Leland from the early days of Cadillac.
He basically tacked on an entire digit and then some to tolerances, and was able, for example, to build rings and pistons that all fit one another, rather than a crafter sitting down to adjust them in pairs.
The precision meant, for example, that it was possible to stock spare engine parts for Cadillacs rather than needing to custom build or repair in machine shops.
So, yes, this strategy has been used before, and worked.
Cadillacs had truly interchangeable parts before Ford's famous assembly line.
Today, if you want to take a real cross-country road trip in a 20's vehicle, your choices are basically a Ford, because so many were built and survive that there are enough clubs and parts to fix them when needed, and a Cadillac, due to the original engineering.
The powerbook 100 isn't and couldn't be supported--it's a 68000, with no potential for an emu (other than that bizarre hack that used two, and stopped one mid-instruction on a fault, using the other to fix things before resuming).
Oddas it sounds, the Powerbook 100 was not part of the Powerbook 100 series.
Apple basically handed the Macintosh Portable to Sony and said "shrink it." The result got called the 100.
There was one insignificant difference, other than size, iirc, but I forget what it was.
hawk, who still has his MacPortable, albeit spread across a couple of shelves
>I think it's time for a "tracking cookie mix and match" addon.
welcome too the 90s:)
junkbuster had options for this way back when. I'm not sure how well supported or complete it was, but these were in the configuration file in the mid 90s.
Well, how much do you expect from a simple accounting gimmick--the whole reason for the thing was they didn't have the special effects budget to land a ship every week, and this was cheap.
And then, it turned into a major plot crutch, as much so as Commander Cleavage and the various time loops.
And the whole die/new person thing was raised by McCoy on the show, anyway.
Up to that (and I think including, but it's been a while), everyone and his brother could design a motherboard.
The RF at speeds above that made it tricky, and suddenly the little shops had to buy motherboards from someone else, and there were soon just a handful.
And to *really* date myself . . . the reason I never built a wire-wrapped Apple ][ was that others had already done it--and they interfered with themselves.
>Another useful protection is that you don't have to return faulty items in >original packaging. Some retailers used to screw people that way, >especially with packaging that can't be opened without destroying it.
Back in another century, I got a great deal as a developer: Ehman sold me a 17" B&W monitor, with a staggering 1024x768 resolution, for just $600 including controller, instead of $900.
Eventually it had a problem, and I called. "Oh, just stuff it in its box and send it back."
OK, aside from no-one without a house keeping boxes that size . .."It didn't come with one."
"Huh?"
"It came on a shipping pallet with cardboard wrapped around it and a lid."
"Oh. One of *those*. Just ship it back however.
So off it went in some box and cardboard I found, all 50 or 70 lbs of it. (Yes,the early high-def monitors were *heavy*, and the tube wasn't two feet deep, but it was much longer than a foot; my office layout was driven by the need to have it in a desk cornet.
> Or -- a guy lied to the reporter about what he actually did. >Both are plausible.
As a former criminal defense attorney, I can assure you that no-one *ever* lies about what they did. No sirreee.
Prisons are full of innocent people, well over 99%. Just ask them. And the ones that pled guilty only did it because their lawyer screwed them. Really.:)
> well if you get stuffed with 3 bad items in a row you're stuck with it.
The last days of the VCR . . . the things had gone *so* mass-produced that even the major brands were sketchy.
I don't buy "product assurance", but for my last VCR, I simply accepted the price of the object +$20 as the two-year cost of having some VCR or another.
If memory serves, it was the first one that died as the tracking failed and went out of range. The one they replaced it with died following the tracking playing the tape its processor was recording when it failed (headslap! What cocky crappy engineering on the "self-aligning").
At that point I asked for a different brand lived through two of that, and finally ended up replaced with a better machine when the fourth machine failed . . .
I have no serious doubts that Lowe's' computers have noticed my return patterns, and the frequency.
But it's high returns in the pattern they want: buying a safety margin on products knowing I can bring back the extras.
Frankly I suspect that I could return past the period, etc., moreso than without the history . . . they *know* I'll be back soon for another gaggle of stuff.
I've been using adblock for ages, but it's modern incarnations mostly lack the ability to list lockable elements.
With that, I am completely unable to block those stupid little players on news sites, such as foxiness, that pop up partway down, and stick around, partly obscuring the test.
The chances of my walking a video on a news site are about the same as being struck by lightning. Safari is fully successful in blocking them from playing but I want them *gone*.
While I'm at it, the other lost art is the blocking of page reload javascript--I really don't need pages reloaded every five minutes or even every minutes. I *know* how to reload a page to see if it's changed.
AFAIK, the Grimm brothers didn't write *any* of them--they gathered and tend existing folk tales into the written forms we know.
And the Grimm versions often have little in common with Disney (can you imagine a mid-century disney cartoon where at the wedding, they pull red-hot iron shoes from the forge and force the villain to dance until she dies? Or birds pecking the eyes of the villains out? or . ..)
Pull your headlines on. In that moment, tailgaters don't have the time to distinguish the difference in brightness between taillights and brakelights . . .
Porches buck quite nicely, and with motorcycles, you can actually see them reach for the brake . . .:)
Actually, the phrase "greenback" came from issuing paper *NOT* backed by gold; the term mocked the money backed by nothing but the green ink on the back . . .
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People keep repeating this, but it just isn't true.
Apple had mockups of the Lisa interface long before the famous visit. It would already have windows and a bit-mapped interface.
Yes, decisions made by PARC on theirs and seen on the visit influenced the dial Lisa design, but it was in *NO* way, sense, or form the origin of those.
PARC itself had drawn on the work of one Jeff Raskin, particularly the Master's thesis, which had laid out the notions of an interface with a bit-mapped display, pointing devices, and such. And Raskin worked at . . . yes, you guessed it: Apple.
hawk
These could all but be direct from Henry Leland from the early days of Cadillac.
He basically tacked on an entire digit and then some to tolerances, and was able, for example, to build rings and pistons that all fit one another, rather than a crafter sitting down to adjust them in pairs.
The precision meant, for example, that it was possible to stock spare engine parts for Cadillacs rather than needing to custom build or repair in machine shops.
So, yes, this strategy has been used before, and worked.
Cadillacs had truly interchangeable parts before Ford's famous assembly line.
Today, if you want to take a real cross-country road trip in a 20's vehicle, your choices are basically a Ford, because so many were built and survive that there are enough clubs and parts to fix them when needed, and a Cadillac, due to the original engineering.
hawk
The powerbook 100 isn't and couldn't be supported--it's a 68000, with no potential for an emu (other than that bizarre hack that used two, and stopped one mid-instruction on a fault, using the other to fix things before resuming).
Oddas it sounds, the Powerbook 100 was not part of the Powerbook 100 series.
Apple basically handed the Macintosh Portable to Sony and said "shrink it." The result got called the 100.
There was one insignificant difference, other than size, iirc, but I forget what it was.
hawk, who still has his MacPortable, albeit spread across a couple of shelves
actually, the first faxes were at the telco center, not to user machines.
Not very big, either (4"? I forget).
And expensive per transmission.
hawk
It semi-means that . . . :)
hawk
Your brain maybe, but keeping in mind that when God divides by zero, we get another black hole . . .
hawk
Nah, that's not how it works.
Goggle just grounds out the extra power through massive resistors. *This* is what's causing global warming! :)
hawk
. . . 50 Shades of Obscurity
!!
hawk
Judge: How does the defendant plea?
Car: *beep*
Judge: I need a guilty or not guilty.
Car: [*flips windshield wipers, splashing a bit onto prosecutor*}
Prosecutor: Your honor!
Judge: Enough of that. I need a plea *now*!
Car: [shudders and squirts a quart of oil, fouling the prosecutor's shoes]
I don't know that it ever got finished, but maybe it did. I also don't recall every seeing a cookie exchange site or server.
It certainly would never have become automatic--over privacy concerns.
hawk
>I think it's time for a "tracking cookie mix and match" addon.
welcome too the 90s :)
junkbuster had options for this way back when. I'm not sure how well supported or complete it was, but these were in the configuration file in the mid 90s.
hawk
>The speed in mph is inexcusable though.
Yes, this.
Furlongs/fortnight is the only acceptable measure of crackpot velocity . . .
hawk
He thinks the world is frisbee shaped--so to his mind, curvature would just be the edge . . .
hawk
Well, how much do you expect from a simple accounting gimmick--the whole reason for the thing was they didn't have the special effects budget to land a ship every week, and this was cheap.
And then, it turned into a major plot crutch, as much so as Commander Cleavage and the various time loops.
And the whole die/new person thing was raised by McCoy on the show, anyway.
hawk
and 12mhz or so was the critical point.
Up to that (and I think including, but it's been a while), everyone and his brother could design a motherboard.
The RF at speeds above that made it tricky, and suddenly the little shops had to buy motherboards from someone else, and there were soon just a handful.
And to *really* date myself . . . the reason I never built a wire-wrapped Apple ][ was that others had already done it--and they interfered with themselves.
hawk
>Another useful protection is that you don't have to return faulty items in
>original packaging. Some retailers used to screw people that way,
>especially with packaging that can't be opened without destroying it.
Back in another century, I got a great deal as a developer: Ehman sold me a 17" B&W monitor, with a staggering 1024x768 resolution, for just $600 including controller, instead of $900.
Eventually it had a problem, and I called. "Oh, just stuff it in its box and send it back."
OK, aside from no-one without a house keeping boxes that size . . ."It didn't come with one."
"Huh?"
"It came on a shipping pallet with cardboard wrapped around it and a lid."
"Oh. One of *those*. Just ship it back however.
So off it went in some box and cardboard I found, all 50 or 70 lbs of it. (Yes,the early high-def monitors were *heavy*, and the tube wasn't two feet deep, but it was much longer than a foot; my office layout was driven by the need to have it in a desk cornet.
hawk
> Or -- a guy lied to the reporter about what he actually did.
>Both are plausible.
As a former criminal defense attorney, I can assure you that no-one *ever* lies about what they did. No sirreee.
Prisons are full of innocent people, well over 99%. Just ask them. And the ones that pled guilty only did it because their lawyer screwed them. Really. :)
hawk
> well if you get stuffed with 3 bad items in a row you're stuck with it.
The last days of the VCR . . . the things had gone *so* mass-produced that even the major brands were sketchy.
I don't buy "product assurance", but for my last VCR, I simply accepted the price of the object +$20 as the two-year cost of having some VCR or another.
If memory serves, it was the first one that died as the tracking failed and went out of range. The one they replaced it with died following the tracking playing the tape its processor was recording when it failed (headslap! What cocky crappy engineering on the "self-aligning").
At that point I asked for a different brand lived through two of that, and finally ended up replaced with a better machine when the fourth machine failed . . .
hawk
This has two edges, though . . .
I have no serious doubts that Lowe's' computers have noticed my return patterns, and the frequency.
But it's high returns in the pattern they want: buying a safety margin on products knowing I can bring back the extras.
Frankly I suspect that I could return past the period, etc., moreso than without the history . . . they *know* I'll be back soon for another gaggle of stuff.
hawk
I've been using adblock for ages, but it's modern incarnations mostly lack the ability to list lockable elements.
With that, I am completely unable to block those stupid little players on news sites, such as foxiness, that pop up partway down, and stick around, partly obscuring the test.
The chances of my walking a video on a news site are about the same as being struck by lightning. Safari is fully successful in blocking them from playing but I want them *gone*.
While I'm at it, the other lost art is the blocking of page reload javascript--I really don't need pages reloaded every five minutes or even every minutes. I *know* how to reload a page to see if it's changed.
hawk
>Yeah, the Grimm Brothers wrote the originals..
AFAIK, the Grimm brothers didn't write *any* of them--they gathered and tend existing folk tales into the written forms we know.
And the Grimm versions often have little in common with Disney (can you imagine a mid-century disney cartoon where at the wedding, they pull red-hot iron shoes from the forge and force the villain to dance until she dies? Or birds pecking the eyes of the villains out? or . . .)
hawk
hawk
this is why Safari is now my primary browser.
I have ghosterty and adblock without a default list (I block anything that moves manually. i still see almost no ads)
hawk
Pull your headlines on. In that moment, tailgaters don't have the time to distinguish the difference in brightness between taillights and brakelights . . .
Porches buck quite nicely, and with motorcycles, you can actually see them reach for the brake . . . :)
hawk
Sure, I believe them--but there was an error in transcription.
It wasn't actually 735M USD, but 735M Venezuelan.
The dictator tried to buy lunch with it, but had to settle for a small soda . . . :)
hawk
Actually, the phrase "greenback" came from issuing paper *NOT* backed by gold; the term mocked the money backed by nothing but the green ink on the back . . .
hawk