Such slander. Xerox invented. Apple bought the rights to the invention from Xerox, improved it dramatically, and launched a revolution. Microsoft copied Apple.
Japanese automobile makers led in the development of fuel-efficient, low-polluting engines. Look at how long it took GM, Ford, and Chrysler to sell cars with engines that had 3 or the now standard 4 valves per cylinder.
Japanese automobile makers took American quality control approaches, and actually applied them. And made better cars.
My next car (my current ride has an American brand, was built in Kansas City, but was based on a european design; I've had it for 7 years, and it was 9 months old when I bought it. 150,000 not-so-trouble-free miles.) will be built in Kentucky or Ohio.
HP did not produce the first reliable laser printer. That would have been Apple, with the LaserWriter, in 1985. Mechanicals were supplied by Canon, parts from their small copiers.
2001, the book, and 2001, the movie, were developed at the same time. Clarke joked in "The Lost Worlds of 2001" that the movie should have credited the screenplay to Kubrick, based on the book by Clarke, and the book should have been by Clarke, based on the movie by Kubrick.
I think grandparent poster has it correct. I noticed a similarity between the demons in Childhood's End and the monolith in 2001. And the role they play in the course of human destiny.
I thought the polaroid suit was all over and done with around 1985. That's when Kodak pulled their instant cameras from the market.
Kodak was aware and tracking digital technology then. Six megapixel sensors were the bogeyman for a number of years; at that point, the thinking went, you could stick a fork into silver-halide film chemistry; it was done.
Kodak Research Labs were a million-dollar-a-day operation. Seeing the problem coming, and being able to do something about it, are two different issues. Kodak didn't have the Integrated Circuit fabrication capabilities to work directly on CCD sensors; they come from other companies.
Not at all true. MacOS X and Linux systems don't have the virus and spyware problems that Windows machines do because MacOS X and Linux were designed with security in mind. On MacOS X, user processes pop up a dialog box asking for an administration password when installing new software. Windows happily complies with the request coming from the browser.
_Over_the_air_broadcast_ of NTSC analog TV signals may go dark on Dec 31 2006. The NTSC output of my cable box and my TiVo will carry on.
I'm keeping my wallet in my pocket until I can get a High-Def TV, DVR, DVD, and archive (DVD burner) setup that doesn't need a cable box (or the $8/month rental) or a terrible tangle of wires and remotes. That doesn't have oppresive restrictions on playing those archives on the 1680 by 1050 screen upstairs.
One bank of 8 chips would have been 64K or 256K, not 128K.
The Mac Plus was the first one with SIMMs; four slots, you had to put SIMMs in in pairs (they were 8 bits wide, and the Mac had a 16-bit data bus), and you could put in 256K or 1Mbit SIMMs.
I have, in my attic, an Apple II computer with a little over a Meg of RAM (1 MB RamWorks card, plus 64K on the motherboard, and another 64K buffer on the printer card), and a Mac Plus with 2.5 Mb of RAM. I should plug them in and see if they still work...
The Apple ImageWriter and the C. Itoh ProWriter share the same mechanicals. The ImageWriter electronics were by Apple; the ImageWriter had a high-speed serial interface. The ProWriter had a Centronics parallel interface.
Apple used other companies' mechanisms in their printers. LaserWriter engines came from Canon. I forget who the StyleWriter (ink jet) engines came from.
Roosevelt did not declare war on "sneak-attack-ism", he urged Congress to declare war on Imperial Japan.
Bush was wrong to declare war on an undefeatable concept, rather than those who have attacked us. Bush was wrong to divert funds, material, and staff approved for or engaged in the war on Al Qaeda to the PNAC project of attacking Iraq. Bush was wrong to lie to the American people about why we were going to war.
Afghanistan is descending back into chaos. The Taliban have regrouped. Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar are still free, and have been plotting and assisting attacks the allies of the United States for two years.
Really? There's no notion of "Fair Use" in the UK?
In the USA, at least, you still have purchased a license to play the movie/songs. Doesn't mean you have to risk the original in playback. Of course, our ever so thoughtful congress has made it illegal to purchase devices to make those copies.
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I dunno about APS's failure.
I bought a Kodak C700 APS camera for a hundred bucks a few years back. Nice and small. Almost pocket-sized, if you don't want to carry too many extra rolls of film and a spare battery.
The prints were always "good enough". The panoramics just started to show film-grain.
After I got the Kodak APS, my 10-year-old Minolta Maxxum 7000 sat on a shelf.
And to earlier threads: I dealt with Seattle Filmworks after they dumped their motion picture film. They always delivered top-quality photo finishing. Never a problem with them, and the prints always came back top-notch good. I've since found a local lab (Click! cameras) that is as good. Their film was standard Fuji.
It's a scam. A perpetual motion machine, as then you could hook one of these motors up to a generator, run it off of 25% of the current from the generator, and use the other 75% for whatever you wanted.
I became a lot less angry at movie theatres when I checked my watch; the commercials are all aired before the published start time of the show. So they replace the end of the slide show. You are not actually forced to watch them.
Adaptive optics won't help with Deep Field observations, because the light from galaxies that far away has been red-shifted into the infra-red where it's absorbed by the atmosphere.
If we told the muslim world that attacks against the US like 9/11 would result in the assured destruction of the arab or muslim world, we wouldn't have attacks against us by those people.
I disagree. Announcing such a policy of genocide against a sixth of the world's population would get the USA rightly branded an outlaw nation.
That you see threatening genocide as a solution tells the world something about your state of bigotry.
Outsourcing will eventually bring export-oriented jobs back to the USA. If exports don't pick up right away, the dollar will go lower against other currencies, making American exports more competitive (and making imports more expensive. $2/gallon gas is closer than you think!)
The jobs will be different jobs than the ones that left, and I, as a software developer with a quarter-century left to kill before I qualify for Social Security, have to find another line of work. Preferably, one that lets me keep my house so I don't have to borrow money to move.
Deceptive in several ways. First off, 5% of the population having "only" 35% of the AGI means that on average, we're talking about having _7_ times the average income. Such is the nature of a progressive tax system.
Secondly, the income tax, while it dominates the taxes payed by upper earners, isn't where low and moderate income folks are taxed. I'm not poor, but I pay more in SS taxes than I do in income tax.
The marginal value of most anything shrinks as the quantity owned or consumed go up. The first beer is Great!, the second is great, the third is good, the fourth would be better if I didn't have to pee so bad, the fifth is OK, I really shouldn't have the sixth, if you make me drink a seventh I'll puke...
One takes care of the most fundamental needs first. "nice to haves" and luxuries come later. Taking $2000 from the person with only $20,000 cuts into a lot of things that are hard to do without.
I personally find his statement that he "took the initiative in creating the internet" to be a grandiose attempt to take political advantage of the internet's popularity... He certainly was a supporter of the idea, but wrote none of the code, developed none of the protocols... he's trying to take credit for the hard work of a lot of scientists and engineers... I personally think that's obnoxious.
Except Vin Cerf, who is the (one of the) fathers of the internet, gives Gore credit for making the internet what it is today. Goree provided the pull in Congress and in the Clinton Administration that enabled the grants to fund the research that built the internet.
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Apple's LISA was released in 1983. It had windows.
Such slander. Xerox invented. Apple bought the rights to the invention from Xerox, improved it dramatically, and launched a revolution. Microsoft copied Apple.
Japanese automobile makers led in the development of fuel-efficient, low-polluting engines. Look at how long it took GM, Ford, and Chrysler to sell cars with engines that had 3 or the now standard 4 valves per cylinder.
Japanese automobile makers took American quality control approaches, and actually applied them. And made better cars.
My next car (my current ride has an American brand, was built in Kansas City, but was based on a european design; I've had it for 7 years, and it was 9 months old when I bought it. 150,000 not-so-trouble-free miles.) will be built in Kentucky or Ohio.
HP did not produce the first reliable laser printer. That would have been Apple, with the LaserWriter, in 1985. Mechanicals were supplied by Canon, parts from their small copiers.
2001, the book, and 2001, the movie, were developed at the same time. Clarke joked in "The Lost Worlds of 2001" that the movie should have credited the screenplay to Kubrick, based on the book by Clarke, and the book should have been by Clarke, based on the movie by Kubrick.
I think grandparent poster has it correct. I noticed a similarity between the demons in Childhood's End and the monolith in 2001. And the role they play in the course of human destiny.
Kodak was aware and tracking digital technology then. Six megapixel sensors were the bogeyman for a number of years; at that point, the thinking went, you could stick a fork into silver-halide film chemistry; it was done.
Kodak Research Labs were a million-dollar-a-day operation. Seeing the problem coming, and being able to do something about it, are two different issues. Kodak didn't have the Integrated Circuit fabrication capabilities to work directly on CCD sensors; they come from other companies.
Not at all true. MacOS X and Linux systems don't have the virus and spyware problems that Windows machines do because MacOS X and Linux were designed with security in mind. On MacOS X, user processes pop up a dialog box asking for an administration password when installing new software. Windows happily complies with the request coming from the browser.
_Over_the_air_broadcast_ of NTSC analog TV signals may go dark on Dec 31 2006. The NTSC output of my cable box and my TiVo will carry on.
I'm keeping my wallet in my pocket until I can get a High-Def TV, DVR, DVD, and archive (DVD burner) setup that doesn't need a cable box (or the $8/month rental) or a terrible tangle of wires and remotes. That doesn't have oppresive restrictions on playing those archives on the 1680 by 1050 screen upstairs.
One bank of 8 chips would have been 64K or 256K, not 128K.
The Mac Plus was the first one with SIMMs; four slots, you had to put SIMMs in in pairs (they were 8 bits wide, and the Mac had a 16-bit data bus), and you could put in 256K or 1Mbit SIMMs.
I have, in my attic, an Apple II computer with a little over a Meg of RAM (1 MB RamWorks card, plus 64K on the motherboard, and another 64K buffer on the printer card), and a Mac Plus with 2.5 Mb of RAM. I should plug them in and see if they still work...
The Apple ImageWriter and the C. Itoh ProWriter share the same mechanicals. The ImageWriter electronics were by Apple; the ImageWriter had a high-speed serial interface. The ProWriter had a Centronics parallel interface.
Apple used other companies' mechanisms in their printers. LaserWriter engines came from Canon. I forget who the StyleWriter (ink jet) engines came from.
My mod points just expired.
I support taking the war on Al Qaeda to Al Qaeda.
Roosevelt did not declare war on "sneak-attack-ism", he urged Congress to declare war on Imperial Japan.
Bush was wrong to declare war on an undefeatable concept, rather than those who have attacked us. Bush was wrong to divert funds, material, and staff approved for or engaged in the war on Al Qaeda to the PNAC project of attacking Iraq. Bush was wrong to lie to the American people about why we were going to war.
Afghanistan is descending back into chaos. The Taliban have regrouped. Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar are still free, and have been plotting and assisting attacks the allies of the United States for two years.
Really? There's no notion of "Fair Use" in the UK?
In the USA, at least, you still have purchased a license to play the movie/songs. Doesn't mean you have to risk the original in playback. Of course, our ever so thoughtful congress has made it illegal to purchase devices to make those copies.
I dunno about APS's failure.
I bought a Kodak C700 APS camera for a hundred bucks a few years back. Nice and small. Almost pocket-sized, if you don't want to carry too many extra rolls of film and a spare battery.
The prints were always "good enough". The panoramics just started to show film-grain.
After I got the Kodak APS, my 10-year-old Minolta Maxxum 7000 sat on a shelf.
And to earlier threads: I dealt with Seattle Filmworks after they dumped their motion picture film. They always delivered top-quality photo finishing. Never a problem with them, and the prints always came back top-notch good. I've since found a local lab (Click! cameras) that is as good. Their film was standard Fuji.
Same power, but 80% less electricity?
It's a scam. A perpetual motion machine, as then you could hook one of these motors up to a generator, run it off of 25% of the current from the generator, and use the other 75% for whatever you wanted.
I became a lot less angry at movie theatres when I checked my watch; the commercials are all aired before the published start time of the show. So they replace the end of the slide show. You are not actually forced to watch them.
The previews started promptly at "showtime".
Adaptive optics won't help with Deep Field observations, because the light from galaxies that far away has been red-shifted into the infra-red where it's absorbed by the atmosphere.
I disagree. Announcing such a policy of genocide against a sixth of the world's population would get the USA rightly branded an outlaw nation.
That you see threatening genocide as a solution tells the world something about your state of bigotry.
Look at the hay that was made over Clinton's poor investment in Whitewater.
Gates is only in trouble if there is a conservative Billionare out there with a grudge.
Counter Example: Red Hat. They have people on salary. They distribute free software. But some folks pay them for something....
Outsourcing will eventually bring export-oriented jobs back to the USA. If exports don't pick up right away, the dollar will go lower against other currencies, making American exports more competitive (and making imports more expensive. $2/gallon gas is closer than you think!)
The jobs will be different jobs than the ones that left, and I, as a software developer with a quarter-century left to kill before I qualify for Social Security, have to find another line of work. Preferably, one that lets me keep my house so I don't have to borrow money to move.
Well, actually, it is the explosion pushing the gun backward and the bullet forward.
Conservation of linear momentum can give you a shortcut to figuring out how much that push backward is going to be. But laws don't push.
More Republican obfuscation.
The U.S. economy continued growing until March, 2001. It contracted from then until November, 2001. 9/11 did not change everything.
In February, 2002, after 9/11, the Bush economic team projected a 2003 budget deficit of $14 Billion. Actual 2003 budget deficit: $375 Billion.
Deceptive in several ways. First off, 5% of the population having "only" 35% of the AGI means that on average, we're talking about having _7_ times the average income. Such is the nature of a progressive tax system.
Secondly, the income tax, while it dominates the taxes payed by upper earners, isn't where low and moderate income folks are taxed. I'm not poor, but I pay more in SS taxes than I do in income tax.
The marginal value of most anything shrinks as the quantity owned or consumed go up. The first beer is Great!, the second is great, the third is good, the fourth would be better if I didn't have to pee so bad, the fifth is OK, I really shouldn't have the sixth, if you make me drink a seventh I'll puke...
One takes care of the most fundamental needs first. "nice to haves" and luxuries come later. Taking $2000 from the person with only $20,000 cuts into a lot of things that are hard to do without.
Except Vin Cerf, who is the (one of the) fathers of the internet, gives Gore credit for making the internet what it is today. Goree provided the pull in Congress and in the Clinton Administration that enabled the grants to fund the research that built the internet.