As I understand it (this all hit the fan a few weeks ago, not sure why/. thinks it's worth an article right now), the patent expires later this year. Formlabs took money now (or rather a few months ago) for a product that would be delivered after the patent expired. So 3D Systems is suing them for getting the money now, before the patent expires.
In other words, Formlabs is being sued for patent infringement about a product that they haven't actually released yet.
I have a PC in the living room for playing videos and games. I specifically avoid using a web browser on it.
The other day my mom came to visit and I wanted to show her maps and street view for how to get out of town without getting lost, so I decided the big TV would be great instead of having to position a laptop for two people to see. I tried to start street view and got the puzzle piece icon instead because I had never installed Flash.
Anyhow, what really bugs me is how some flash web ads are able to bypass Ad Block Plus's "Block..." tab. I right click, and sure enough, there's the Flash menu, so I have to bring up the blockable items list to figure out what I need to block.
Slashdot, because of the good moderation system and good supply of topics that I want to see other people's comments about as much as the topic itself
and 4chan (yes, seriously) because it's sort of a zero-point energy of random discussion with its default anonymity and constantly expiring threads (it's too much hardcore internet trolling and memes for the average person though) But stay away from/b/, nothing interesting happens there anymore.
I avoid the twits and bookfaces as much as possible. At least 4chan's social cancer is constantly flushed away, unlike twitter and facebook where it stays around and festers.
Only problem with apple.com is they sell computers that have been empirically found to be of inferior in quality to cheap OEM's like Asus and Lenovo
[Citation needed]
With current "unibody" laptop models, not the old "aluminum" models they stopped selling three years ago. (I had three of them, one PPC and two Intel. Those cases sucked, or at least the 17" version did. The DVD-ROM drive would go physically out of alignment with the slot so that you couldn't eject a disc, and skin oils on my hands eroded the top surface. The unibody is a lot more sturdy.)
I would be nice and at least give him something with a half-decent keyboard. Like a TRS-80. (But not the later Model IV where they moved the arrow keys around.) FWIW, with a TRS-80 Model I and a Z-80 reference card, I learned a lot of Z-80 assembly language with a lot of good code examples. But that "no internet" thing is important. Maybe a DVD-R with PDFs of the first few years of Byte magazine, but absolutely no internet.
Apparently it was successful everywhere but the US.
Probably because of the video game crash of '82. The crash missed Japan and Europe, so 8-bit stuff hung on longer there, but MSX came out in '83, post-dating both the IBM PC and the C-64. The US was tired of 8-bit 64K toys, and certainly didn't need to import the equivalent of a Coleco Adam from Japan. The C-64 only survived as long as it did because of its floppy drive.
By the time the crash thawed out (with the introduction of the NES in late '85), 16-bit systems were firmly in control for everything but cartridge games. Not just the PC, but the Macintosh, Amiga, and Atari ST.
There is one thing worth mentioning: the 360 is a games console and you can play games on it without an internet connection. My friend's son had a 360 about 6 years ago and it has never been connected to the net. Personally, I think this is a waste as multiplayer gaming is 'what it's all about' but he seemed happy enough.
I remember when you could play networked games without an internet connection.
So are you saying you went to freecreditreport.com (the one with strings attached that was plastered all over the place in advertisements with a catchy jingle a few years back, though I haven't seen that lately) instead of annualcreditreport.com (the one that the Big 3 are required to maintain with no strings attached so they stay hush-hush about it)?
If you can't tell the green and brown wires apart in a cat5 cable, then you are probably fully color blind (-anopia). These glasses only work for partially color blind (-anomaly) eyes. The latter is what I have, in that I can't tell certain shades of brown apart. (I had a "paint pots test" when I was 16 or so, where you have a bunch of black cylinder blocks with a colored circle on top, and arrange them in order of which colors are most similar. With normal color vision you arange them in a circle. I made a figure eight.)
And I can tell you that it hurt very much when the bullet chipped my femur. But fortunately, I don't have any flesh there, so I'm quite all right and back to scything souls into the afterlife.*
*boldface used because we all know how much/. loves ALL CAPS
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I don't see anything about Mac Paint (or Adobe or Photoshop) anywhere on that page. And someone modded you up for that?
He is... The Most Nerdy Man In The World.
As I understand it (this all hit the fan a few weeks ago, not sure why /. thinks it's worth an article right now), the patent expires later this year. Formlabs took money now (or rather a few months ago) for a product that would be delivered after the patent expired. So 3D Systems is suing them for getting the money now, before the patent expires.
In other words, Formlabs is being sued for patent infringement about a product that they haven't actually released yet.
Do they use DMHO? That's one of the nastiest chemicals there is. And it's all over the place, too!
Nice of Comcast to wait until 30 Rock was over, rather than having them scramble to work "Kabletown buys out NBC" into the script.
I'm sure they'll be right behind eliminating North Korea's nuclear weapons programs.
Maybe he can turn it into a bitcoin miner.
Only if the free market decides it's worth the cost of putting that extra 't' back in.
(There actually is a cost involved; changing the title of an article causes the RSS feed to re-announce the article.)
I have a PC in the living room for playing videos and games. I specifically avoid using a web browser on it.
The other day my mom came to visit and I wanted to show her maps and street view for how to get out of town without getting lost, so I decided the big TV would be great instead of having to position a laptop for two people to see. I tried to start street view and got the puzzle piece icon instead because I had never installed Flash.
Anyhow, what really bugs me is how some flash web ads are able to bypass Ad Block Plus's "Block..." tab. I right click, and sure enough, there's the Flash menu, so I have to bring up the blockable items list to figure out what I need to block.
Really, the only two-way stuff I use is:
Slashdot, because of the good moderation system and good supply of topics that I want to see other people's comments about as much as the topic itself
and 4chan (yes, seriously) because it's sort of a zero-point energy of random discussion with its default anonymity and constantly expiring threads (it's too much hardcore internet trolling and memes for the average person though) But stay away from /b/, nothing interesting happens there anymore.
I avoid the twits and bookfaces as much as possible. At least 4chan's social cancer is constantly flushed away, unlike twitter and facebook where it stays around and festers.
Only problem with apple.com is they sell computers that have been empirically found to be of inferior in quality to cheap OEM's like Asus and Lenovo
[Citation needed]
With current "unibody" laptop models, not the old "aluminum" models they stopped selling three years ago. (I had three of them, one PPC and two Intel. Those cases sucked, or at least the 17" version did. The DVD-ROM drive would go physically out of alignment with the slot so that you couldn't eject a disc, and skin oils on my hands eroded the top surface. The unibody is a lot more sturdy.)
I would be nice and at least give him something with a half-decent keyboard. Like a TRS-80. (But not the later Model IV where they moved the arrow keys around.) FWIW, with a TRS-80 Model I and a Z-80 reference card, I learned a lot of Z-80 assembly language with a lot of good code examples. But that "no internet" thing is important. Maybe a DVD-R with PDFs of the first few years of Byte magazine, but absolutely no internet.
They need to allow arrow keys in passwords. Then I can change my password to the Konami code.
Not long enough.
hunter12345
How about a glorious career in astrosanitation?
Apparently it was successful everywhere but the US.
Probably because of the video game crash of '82. The crash missed Japan and Europe, so 8-bit stuff hung on longer there, but MSX came out in '83, post-dating both the IBM PC and the C-64. The US was tired of 8-bit 64K toys, and certainly didn't need to import the equivalent of a Coleco Adam from Japan. The C-64 only survived as long as it did because of its floppy drive.
By the time the crash thawed out (with the introduction of the NES in late '85), 16-bit systems were firmly in control for everything but cartridge games. Not just the PC, but the Macintosh, Amiga, and Atari ST.
There is one thing worth mentioning: the 360 is a games console and you can play games on it without an internet connection. My friend's son had a 360 about 6 years ago and it has never been connected to the net. Personally, I think this is a waste as multiplayer gaming is 'what it's all about' but he seemed happy enough.
I remember when you could play networked games without an internet connection.
Funny thing is, if you look at Amazon for used first gen hardware-BC PS3s, you see they currently command more than their original MSRPs...
Yes, because you can play PS2 games on them!
We can stop all this if we can just get Nintendo to do something spiteful because of the Steam Box!
So just change the 'a' to an 'i' and you get Spice Marines!
So are you saying you went to freecreditreport.com (the one with strings attached that was plastered all over the place in advertisements with a catchy jingle a few years back, though I haven't seen that lately) instead of annualcreditreport.com (the one that the Big 3 are required to maintain with no strings attached so they stay hush-hush about it)?
If you can't tell the green and brown wires apart in a cat5 cable, then you are probably fully color blind (-anopia). These glasses only work for partially color blind (-anomaly) eyes. The latter is what I have, in that I can't tell certain shades of brown apart. (I had a "paint pots test" when I was 16 or so, where you have a bunch of black cylinder blocks with a colored circle on top, and arrange them in order of which colors are most similar. With normal color vision you arange them in a circle. I made a figure eight.)
Man arrested in shooting death
And I can tell you that it hurt very much when the bullet chipped my femur. But fortunately, I don't have any flesh there, so I'm quite all right and back to scything souls into the afterlife.*
*boldface used because we all know how much /. loves ALL CAPS
What type detection would accept a file:/// for the argument?
The type that says "Ooh this looks like a URL, let me change it into a pretty underlined blue for you!"
Volcano erupt YOU! And lava is red for glory of mother Russia!