The thought of an all-translucent computer brings to mind the story a friend once told me about someone who built a Heathkit Color Television Set using "liquid solder**" instead of real solder.
It looked great, and had perfect soldering joints on all the PC boards......
**"Liquid solder" is a silver-colored metal-bearing epoxy that is decidedly NOT conductive.
That would make for an interesting dilemma with regard to a peripheral I have connected to my computer here at home.
I have a set of Microsoft's USB-interface speakers ("Microsoft Digital Sound System 80") on my system (it replaces the sound card). There is no 'analog' cable connected to my CD-ROM drive inside the computer. When I put an audio CD into the CD-ROM drive to play, the Media Player software "rips" the audio tracks, converts it to a digital stream, and pipes it out to the speakers through the USB port. In effect, any time I listen to an audio CD on this system, my computer is "ripping" the CD. And it's all done with Microsoft software and hardware.
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The thought of an all-translucent computer brings to mind the story a friend once told me about someone who built a Heathkit Color Television Set using "liquid solder**" instead of real solder.
It looked great, and had perfect soldering joints on all the PC boards......
**"Liquid solder" is a silver-colored metal-bearing epoxy that is decidedly NOT conductive.
I agree. I just started running NetBSD-68K on an old Mac here.
It's far more powerful than the software Apple intended for me to run on the old SE/30.
I'm not fool enough to use Linux on it (Apple's 0wned, and now extinguished MkLinux), of course.
Sounds like a whole lot of fun for the kind of jerks who like to slip trojans out into the digital stream.
You can counter that with some form of an encrypted signature scheme.... but whose publicly known site holds the key?
That would make for an interesting dilemma with regard to a peripheral I have connected to my computer here at home.
I have a set of Microsoft's USB-interface speakers ("Microsoft Digital Sound System 80") on my system (it replaces the sound card). There is no 'analog' cable connected to my CD-ROM drive inside the computer. When I put an audio CD into the CD-ROM drive to play, the Media Player software "rips" the audio tracks, converts it to a digital stream, and pipes it out to the speakers through the USB port. In effect, any time I listen to an audio CD on this system, my computer is "ripping" the CD. And it's all done with Microsoft software and hardware.
I think lawyers get trained to say stuff like that in the face of defeat.
Oh, and saying this is "just chapter one" just makes me think "only ten more to chapter eleven (bankruptcy)"
"Close the company down and cash it out at a profit." ?????
Nobody has ever taught you anything about how the stock market works, have they? You can't issue stock and then somehow "disappear" with the proceeds.