If you take a look at their online version the water question asks you to select a radio button for the approximate. However they are presented in multiples of ten (1-10,11-20...61-70,71-80...) The supposedly correct answer is 70. I probably would have chosen 71-80.
You are correct that it was in large part a problem with how it was handled. IBM was trying as was common for the time to strong arm in something that they liked. Which lead to something that was largely incompatible, and thus rather junky. They could have approached the system better and made something that would work better with the world, but that never happened (Which while it took awhile for other systems to really catch on with the idea, it started happening).
I have some trouble seeing why Creative would be unhappy about all of this. So they pay out a million dollars for court fees (Maybe). But how much do they get back in all that free advertising? And of course there is the detail of they don't pay anything out to most people.
It shows something of how Linux and Windows play off of each other. One thinks of something cool, and the other steals it. Though I think Windows has the advantage in this situation. As taking open source ideas causes rather little shame. The reverse doesn't tend to be so simple.
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I don't know, one could power a small country with the same power needed to run the Spaceballs hair dryer.
If you take a look at their online version the water question asks you to select a radio button for the approximate. However they are presented in multiples of ten (1-10,11-20...61-70,71-80...) The supposedly correct answer is 70. I probably would have chosen 71-80.
Finally a fuel "free of chemicals"!
You are correct that it was in large part a problem with how it was handled. IBM was trying as was common for the time to strong arm in something that they liked. Which lead to something that was largely incompatible, and thus rather junky. They could have approached the system better and made something that would work better with the world, but that never happened (Which while it took awhile for other systems to really catch on with the idea, it started happening).
its best stuff (like OS/2 for instance)
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I have some trouble seeing why Creative would be unhappy about all of this. So they pay out a million dollars for court fees (Maybe). But how much do they get back in all that free advertising? And of course there is the detail of they don't pay anything out to most people.
It shows something of how Linux and Windows play off of each other. One thinks of something cool, and the other steals it. Though I think Windows has the advantage in this situation. As taking open source ideas causes rather little shame. The reverse doesn't tend to be so simple.