As long as you remember that every regulatory agency of government exists for one purpose: to serve that industry and assure their profits; you will understand their actions. Many ordinary citizens think that these agencies are there to protect citizens. Isn't that quaint!
We at Slashdot understand that every executive of these agencies is from the industry that they 'regulate', and they will return there in time. Their function is to see that companies in that industry are not disturbed by regulations and that they are given every opportunity to profit. In return, these executives receive excellent compensation and a lifetime of financial security.
This is the FDA, Food and Drugs, but the same holds true for the others in agriculture, industrial safety, insurance, transportation, agriculture, finance, etc. Even the agency that licenses your local nail salon has no interest in your safety- it is there to protect the industry from unlicensed operators who would 'steal' their profits.
So this agency, which exists to protect the profits of Food and Drug makers, now wants supervision over a $40 billion industry of herbal and vitamin providers. They sense an urgent need to protect consumers from this industry. (bullshit)
They see an opportunity to expand the agency and bring more well-paid executives into the gravy train that is their scam. Fuck the consumers, they want control over another industry.
In an enlightened society, businesses that need supervision would be licensed by a non-profit, consumer supported organization free of corrupt government influence. Underwriters Laboratories used to be such an organization but lately their endorsement doesn't seem to mean much. Consumers Union might be trustworthy. I'd love to be informed of other truly consumer oriented organizations.
I know that many of you avoid 'smart' TVs for various reasons. I'm struggling with my 'smart' phone that seems to do things whenever it pleases despite my preferences. I don't want a car that decides for itself what it should do. I don't want a car that connects to the internet whenever it, or some outside intelligence, wants it to.
Yeah, there are some who are 'haunted forever'. Total losers. Every society allows a certain amount of time for mourning and every society expects people to get back with the living afterword.
Death is a fact of life, in case you haven't heard. Go ahead and wallow in grief but it will serve no good purpose. Instead, consider doing something useful with your life and dedicating the good results to the memory of your lost one.
"half of those deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries"
Which strongly suggests that half of them die in high income countries. Countries which typically have a smaller population. Which suggests that a larger proportion of high income people are dying after their surgery.
Hey, I'm talking about US, people! Tech workers, managers, skilled mathematicians and undertakers and other people who help maintain our countries' high incomes. Are we gonna stand for this death rate? We need to protest! Or move to a low-income country where surgery is safer.
The main reason that ads exist is that they are for generic products and services. When your product is indistinguishable from all the similar products, one way to sell it is to advertise. There are other ways, such as lowering the price. But generic products tend to be priced near cost anyway. The best way to sell your product is to make it distinctly better than similar products.
Pepsi and Coke sell essentially the same product: sugar water. As a result they must advertise like crazy to get buyer loyalty. Ford and GM have battled the same way for generations over cars that (despite certain crazed fans) aren't really very different.
Every week, many of us receive by post a packet of ads from local retailers, supermarkets, restaurants and nail salons. If you look closely you won't find among them an ad for Walmart or Amazon. Why would the worlds largest retailers need to waste money on those ads? Target will occasionally use that medium, hoping to grab some Walmart customers.
OTOH, Phillips / Norelco actually created two unique products that for a long time lead the field: the first cassette tape recorder and the first rotary electric shaver. They had no real competition and the need for advertising was only to introduce the public to a genuinely new and potentially beneficial product.
For a few years Apple sold its products with big images of great thinkers (Einstein, etc) and two other elements: the words "think different", and a small Apple logo. No product was mentioned. Elsewhere in the world of personal computers there were 20 brands with names like Compaq, Dell, H-P, etc. They were all making 'clones' and fighting furiously to sell these basically identical products. Lots of ads promoting minor distinctions, but mostly low prices. A race to the bottom.
If every vendor of goods and services had a unique product that clearly stood out in its field, the need for advertising would be greatly reduced. Thus most of the ads you see are for items that are essentially uninteresting.
Unfortunately, we benefit from the clones of every industry. The race to the bottom means standardized products and low prices for consumers. We don't have to pay the Apple/Norelco premium price. It's nice that there are innovators, but also good that we have access to affordable traditional products. Thanks to advertising.
It's fairly well understood by the literati that our genes were planted by aliens into our hairy ancestors eons ago. The literature is rich with what was once considered speculation. But the very repetition and consistent mantra has stood the test of time and proven itself worthy. Little green men (and possibly women) seeded our planet with the microscopic elements that transformed the destiny of some tree swingers; that is to create us.
Had this not been so, our simian ancestors would have evolved into a truly enlightened species that respected each other and the planet on which they lived. Unfortunately, the alien seeding assured that we would be warlike and disrespectful to our environment. We were programmed to be clever, but not smart. We cleverly created tools that could be used for good or for evil, but we consistently used them for evil because we were not smart.
Early thinkers imagined that it was their gift to us, but only now do we realize that programmed into our DNA is the drive to destroy ourselves and any sentient beings remaining on this planet. In the near future, our alien masters will return to take over the planet and enslave any remaining element of humanity.
Surveillance is a factor, no doubt. In this century my emails to friends and family are as vulgar as ever, but we are all very careful about the speling of certain words. Speaking of our prezident, Mr. t. Rump, for instance, or any US erected ofishul. We obfuscate words like tererist and Central I.A. Even events/people/organizations in other countries require such treatment.
This is slightly more convenient than encraption and it offers a bit of creative exercise.
Sorry to drag social media into the fray again, but it may have undue influence. The poorest, most ignorant people don't use social media much. When the doctor, or some authority, tells them to get vaccinations, they obey.
But those steeped in social media see lots of opinions, lots of controversy, lots of fake news. When an authority tells them to get vaccinations, they think they know better.
'All's fair in love and war', they say. Raising children is a very emotional activity. Parents tend to be protective and sometimes paranoid about obscure threats to their children. Rationality is sometimes overlooked when they find urgent online pleas to avoid vaxxing.
I work with illiterate adults, helping them to be readers. They are very docile and will do what doctors tell them to do. The rest of us are too smart to fall for that blind obedience trap.
Reading about this elsewhere, I believe that the scientists specifically said that this is far from enough power to operate a cell phone. But without the mention of a cell phone, who would waste time on this 'news'?
Furthermore- if you did wrap one of these around your phone, how would it get the radio signals it needs to function?
"ability to model an entire city's patterns of movement"
That's right. We, the 99%, are statistical data. Just as scientists study the movement of butterflies, whales, migrating birds and ants, we are the subject of scrutiny. Not as unique individuals who have our own special formula at Starbucks, but as a horde. A herd. A quantity.
Are we wrong to imagine our uniqueness? Are the patterns of our life not special to each of us? Surely we aren't a mass of seven billion clones!
Actually, this can be a liberating way of thinking. To the extent that we think of ourselves as 'special', we create problems for ourselves. We are then forced to do things that demonstrate our individuality, and those things pretty much always fail and make us look foolish. Just relax. Go with the (literal) flow. Realize that you are just a pimple on the ass of the universe and your life will go smoothly.
What you are seeing is a symptom, not a disease. Many people withdraw from the world at varying times to varying degrees. When it becomes obsessive, we suspect a problem.
In another time and place this problem could exhibit symptoms of 'TV addiction', 'romance novel addiction' or 'ham radio addiction'. Don't confuse symptoms with causes. Don't insist on easy answers to incredibly complex problems.
This is a valuable service for which Google will be well paid. Google knows the customer, Google knows the company, and both trust Google. Google can help make the sale and the company will pay far more than a for regular ad in search results.
This is a simple extension of a long existing referral method. Decades ago I was a building contractor doing well, having fun. Then I had an opportunity to contract with Sears; the biggest and most trusted retailer in the US. Sounded great. They put a phone in my office and whenever it rang, I responded with the Sears name. The phone rang a lot and I got lots of work from those Sears customers.
But Sears took 25% of the gross sale. So I had to charge their customers a lot more than my customers. They trusted Sears and it cost them plenty. Today the Home Depot stores offer similar services delivered by outside companies. Beware of high prices but expect good service.
Will the debtor's phone be continually pointing at him/her and squawking that he/she is a deadbeat? Will his/her family be shamed as well?
The term 'deadbeat' reminds me of a few (many) years back when 'deadbeat dads', who had failed to pay their child support, got their pictures in local newspapers. Similarly, some newspapers published pictures of 'johns' who patronized local prostitutes. Shaming was popular then. Musta been illegal, they don't do it now.
If you asked Slashdot in 1986 (after the Mac had been around a while) about the value of mouses, users would howl with laughter and make it perfectly clear that "Real men don't use mouses!"
This here must be a new generation of Slashdotters. RIP to those mouse haters.
My experience is that Dept of Defense, Pentagon, CIA, FBI; all those hard core authoritative, rigid unimaginative types are actually paranoid. They don't understand science stuff, they don't read science fiction, they have no clue. So when some weirdo nerd geek has an idea about aliens or zombies or other fantastic fantasy, the unsmiling badge holders go into defense mode and spend whatever it takes to remove the 'threat'. And that includes conservative politicians who fund the research into these 'threats'.
Right brain thinkers with imagination can always terrorize left brain thinkers with none, in spite of their guns, bombers, warships and missiles.
When the summary says "as the company continues its push to be seen as supportive of privacy."
- it is correct, the company does do that.
But the clear implication is that this effort is misleading. That Apple does not, in reality, support privacy. That is dishonest and doesn't belong on Slashdot.
Was it Facebook? Google? All of them? And when they gave it to the senator, how much did they add to his re-election fund?
Experience suggests that any legislation of industry that sounds good for the people is probably very cleverly written (as this is) to give that impression, but it is written by industry with their profits in mind. Our elected officials represent them, not us.
Never use a mailbox that is permanently connected to YOU; your ISP, your work or whatever. OK, you probably have to use your work or school account sometimes- keep it to a minimum.
Use gmail, hotmail, any of the free services. Have one for family, one for friends, one for work, and at lest two for questionable email (people or businesses you may not want to continue with).
The key is that they are all disposable, unlike the one your ISP offers. You can dump any of them and open another if they become too spammy. Simply inform your favored correspondents first using the names associated with that mailbox. They will understand if they've ever received spam.
This assumes that you are using an email program that can manage many accounts in one place. If you've been going to a website with your browser to get your email, you need to reconsider.
Anyone can claim a trademark. After using it a while, they can apply for registration. They will learn that some things qualify and some don't and some are indeterminate. A name like Xerox was easy to qualify because it was an invented word and nobody else had claimed it.
Even if you can register a TM, it may be challenged in court on various grounds. Suppose you claimed Lunch Time as a TM. It is far more likely than Xerox to have been used already and it is a risky choice. Someone might argue that Lunch Time is a common phrase undeserving of a trademark.
Failure to continuously use your TM can forfeit your rights. Failure to defend it in the face of others' using the same mark can forfeit your rights. IP law is complicated and not always rational and may have changed since I glanced at it in 1975.
The more you put on your storage device, the more you have to lose when it crashes.
So, add to the $500 cost of this device another $1,000 for your minimal backup system. Back up to a 2nd unit, then back that up to another. Keep them up-to-date. Keep one in a safe remote location. Reasonably safe if they are SanDisk brand. What? Oops!
"The Visible Computer: 6502 Machine Language Teaching System combines this manual with a 6502 simulator program to provide a systematic way to learn machine language programming on Apple II computers.
The Visible Computer is a program that teaches programming. The title is a takeoff on those transparent plastic models of men that once (and maybe still do) populated sixth grade classrooms. Like The Visible Man, The Visible Computer lets you see into a place not normally accessible to the eye. Places like chest cavities and accumulators, address latches and pancrei. Unlike The Visible Man, TVC requires no assembly, no careful painting, and no smelly airplane glue."
TVC was a powerful combination of text, graphics and a kind of animation that showed things like registers changing as a program was executed. You could slow or even step thru a program and watch all elements moving around. At its fastest, the emulated program was still very slow in the early Apple computer, but the important thing was seeing it in action and really understanding what's under the hood. Simple to look at, elegant in execution. A version was available for Commodore 64, both by Charles Anderson.
This concept could be done today for modern computers if someone cared enough about coding education. You can see the 1982 manual here: https://archive.org/details/Th...
WOW, you're so smart! Apple needs to hire you immediately and get rid of all their marketing executives. And how clever of you to come out with your wisdom at the same time as other geniuses who read a single news item and immediately tell the world that they agree with it. Life is so simple when you have all the answers handed to you.
We've already had paintings and photos of our loved ones for a couple centuries. We can easily create audio & video keepsakes. How is this better? If we really want an animated freak show, I think a hologram would be more innovative. My Mexican neighbors can put the face of a departed loved one on a pinata and beat the crap out of it. (We sometimes have some animosity toward our closest relatives.)
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As long as you remember that every regulatory agency of government exists for one purpose: to serve that industry and assure their profits; you will understand their actions. Many ordinary citizens think that these agencies are there to protect citizens. Isn't that quaint!
We at Slashdot understand that every executive of these agencies is from the industry that they 'regulate', and they will return there in time. Their function is to see that companies in that industry are not disturbed by regulations and that they are given every opportunity to profit. In return, these executives receive excellent compensation and a lifetime of financial security.
This is the FDA, Food and Drugs, but the same holds true for the others in agriculture, industrial safety, insurance, transportation, agriculture, finance, etc. Even the agency that licenses your local nail salon has no interest in your safety- it is there to protect the industry from unlicensed operators who would 'steal' their profits.
So this agency, which exists to protect the profits of Food and Drug makers, now wants supervision over a $40 billion industry of herbal and vitamin providers. They sense an urgent need to protect consumers from this industry. (bullshit)
They see an opportunity to expand the agency and bring more well-paid executives into the gravy train that is their scam. Fuck the consumers, they want control over another industry.
In an enlightened society, businesses that need supervision would be licensed by a non-profit, consumer supported organization free of corrupt government influence. Underwriters Laboratories used to be such an organization but lately their endorsement doesn't seem to mean much. Consumers Union might be trustworthy. I'd love to be informed of other truly consumer oriented organizations.
I know that many of you avoid 'smart' TVs for various reasons. I'm struggling with my 'smart' phone that seems to do things whenever it pleases despite my preferences. I don't want a car that decides for itself what it should do. I don't want a car that connects to the internet whenever it, or some outside intelligence, wants it to.
I'd much prefer a 1956 Corvette, dumb as a bucket of rocks, to the smartest car on the market.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
"haunt you forever"?
Yeah, there are some who are 'haunted forever'. Total losers. Every society allows a certain amount of time for mourning and every society expects people to get back with the living afterword.
Death is a fact of life, in case you haven't heard. Go ahead and wallow in grief but it will serve no good purpose. Instead, consider doing something useful with your life and dedicating the good results to the memory of your lost one.
"half of those deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries"
Which strongly suggests that half of them die in high income countries. Countries which typically have a smaller population. Which suggests that a larger proportion of high income people are dying after their surgery.
Hey, I'm talking about US, people! Tech workers, managers, skilled mathematicians and undertakers and other people who help maintain our countries' high incomes. Are we gonna stand for this death rate? We need to protest! Or move to a low-income country where surgery is safer.
The main reason that ads exist is that they are for generic products and services. When your product is indistinguishable from all the similar products, one way to sell it is to advertise. There are other ways, such as lowering the price. But generic products tend to be priced near cost anyway. The best way to sell your product is to make it distinctly better than similar products.
Pepsi and Coke sell essentially the same product: sugar water. As a result they must advertise like crazy to get buyer loyalty. Ford and GM have battled the same way for generations over cars that (despite certain crazed fans) aren't really very different.
Every week, many of us receive by post a packet of ads from local retailers, supermarkets, restaurants and nail salons. If you look closely you won't find among them an ad for Walmart or Amazon. Why would the worlds largest retailers need to waste money on those ads? Target will occasionally use that medium, hoping to grab some Walmart customers.
OTOH, Phillips / Norelco actually created two unique products that for a long time lead the field: the first cassette tape recorder and the first rotary electric shaver. They had no real competition and the need for advertising was only to introduce the public to a genuinely new and potentially beneficial product.
For a few years Apple sold its products with big images of great thinkers (Einstein, etc) and two other elements: the words "think different", and a small Apple logo. No product was mentioned. Elsewhere in the world of personal computers there were 20 brands with names like Compaq, Dell, H-P, etc. They were all making 'clones' and fighting furiously to sell these basically identical products. Lots of ads promoting minor distinctions, but mostly low prices. A race to the bottom.
If every vendor of goods and services had a unique product that clearly stood out in its field, the need for advertising would be greatly reduced. Thus most of the ads you see are for items that are essentially uninteresting.
Unfortunately, we benefit from the clones of every industry. The race to the bottom means standardized products and low prices for consumers. We don't have to pay the Apple/Norelco premium price. It's nice that there are innovators, but also good that we have access to affordable traditional products. Thanks to advertising.
It's fairly well understood by the literati that our genes were planted by aliens into our hairy ancestors eons ago. The literature is rich with what was once considered speculation. But the very repetition and consistent mantra has stood the test of time and proven itself worthy. Little green men (and possibly women) seeded our planet with the microscopic elements that transformed the destiny of some tree swingers; that is to create us.
Had this not been so, our simian ancestors would have evolved into a truly enlightened species that respected each other and the planet on which they lived. Unfortunately, the alien seeding assured that we would be warlike and disrespectful to our environment. We were programmed to be clever, but not smart. We cleverly created tools that could be used for good or for evil, but we consistently used them for evil because we were not smart.
Early thinkers imagined that it was their gift to us, but only now do we realize that programmed into our DNA is the drive to destroy ourselves and any sentient beings remaining on this planet. In the near future, our alien masters will return to take over the planet and enslave any remaining element of humanity.
Surveillance is a factor, no doubt. In this century my emails to friends and family are as vulgar as ever, but we are all very careful about the speling of certain words. Speaking of our prezident, Mr. t. Rump, for instance, or any US erected ofishul. We obfuscate words like tererist and Central I.A. Even events/people/organizations in other countries require such treatment.
This is slightly more convenient than encraption and it offers a bit of creative exercise.
Sorry to drag social media into the fray again, but it may have undue influence. The poorest, most ignorant people don't use social media much. When the doctor, or some authority, tells them to get vaccinations, they obey.
But those steeped in social media see lots of opinions, lots of controversy, lots of fake news. When an authority tells them to get vaccinations, they think they know better.
'All's fair in love and war', they say. Raising children is a very emotional activity. Parents tend to be protective and sometimes paranoid about obscure threats to their children. Rationality is sometimes overlooked when they find urgent online pleas to avoid vaxxing.
I work with illiterate adults, helping them to be readers. They are very docile and will do what doctors tell them to do. The rest of us are too smart to fall for that blind obedience trap.
Reading about this elsewhere, I believe that the scientists specifically said that this is far from enough power to operate a cell phone. But without the mention of a cell phone, who would waste time on this 'news'?
Furthermore- if you did wrap one of these around your phone, how would it get the radio signals it needs to function?
"ability to model an entire city's patterns of movement"
That's right. We, the 99%, are statistical data. Just as scientists study the movement of butterflies, whales, migrating birds and ants, we are the subject of scrutiny. Not as unique individuals who have our own special formula at Starbucks, but as a horde. A herd. A quantity.
Are we wrong to imagine our uniqueness? Are the patterns of our life not special to each of us? Surely we aren't a mass of seven billion clones!
Actually, this can be a liberating way of thinking. To the extent that we think of ourselves as 'special', we create problems for ourselves. We are then forced to do things that demonstrate our individuality, and those things pretty much always fail and make us look foolish. Just relax. Go with the (literal) flow. Realize that you are just a pimple on the ass of the universe and your life will go smoothly.
What you are seeing is a symptom, not a disease. Many people withdraw from the world at varying times to varying degrees. When it becomes obsessive, we suspect a problem.
In another time and place this problem could exhibit symptoms of 'TV addiction', 'romance novel addiction' or 'ham radio addiction'. Don't confuse symptoms with causes. Don't insist on easy answers to incredibly complex problems.
This is a valuable service for which Google will be well paid. Google knows the customer, Google knows the company, and both trust Google. Google can help make the sale and the company will pay far more than a for regular ad in search results.
This is a simple extension of a long existing referral method. Decades ago I was a building contractor doing well, having fun. Then I had an opportunity to contract with Sears; the biggest and most trusted retailer in the US. Sounded great. They put a phone in my office and whenever it rang, I responded with the Sears name. The phone rang a lot and I got lots of work from those Sears customers.
But Sears took 25% of the gross sale. So I had to charge their customers a lot more than my customers. They trusted Sears and it cost them plenty. Today the Home Depot stores offer similar services delivered by outside companies. Beware of high prices but expect good service.
Google will be well paid for this service also.
Will citizens be required to download this app?
Will the debtor's phone be continually pointing at him/her and squawking that he/she is a deadbeat? Will his/her family be shamed as well?
The term 'deadbeat' reminds me of a few (many) years back when 'deadbeat dads', who had failed to pay their child support, got their pictures in local newspapers. Similarly, some newspapers published pictures of 'johns' who patronized local prostitutes. Shaming was popular then. Musta been illegal, they don't do it now.
If you asked Slashdot in 1986 (after the Mac had been around a while) about the value of mouses, users would howl with laughter and make it perfectly clear that "Real men don't use mouses!"
This here must be a new generation of Slashdotters. RIP to those mouse haters.
Let them cover their ears until the noise goes away. Simple, effective.
RightwingNutjob is on to something.
My experience is that Dept of Defense, Pentagon, CIA, FBI; all those hard core authoritative, rigid unimaginative types are actually paranoid. They don't understand science stuff, they don't read science fiction, they have no clue. So when some weirdo nerd geek has an idea about aliens or zombies or other fantastic fantasy, the unsmiling badge holders go into defense mode and spend whatever it takes to remove the 'threat'. And that includes conservative politicians who fund the research into these 'threats'.
Right brain thinkers with imagination can always terrorize left brain thinkers with none, in spite of their guns, bombers, warships and missiles.
When the summary says
"as the company continues its push to be seen as supportive of privacy."
- it is correct, the company does do that.
But the clear implication is that this effort is misleading. That Apple does not, in reality, support privacy. That is dishonest and doesn't belong on Slashdot.
Was it Facebook? Google? All of them?
And when they gave it to the senator, how much did they add to his re-election fund?
Experience suggests that any legislation of industry that sounds good for the people is probably very cleverly written (as this is) to give that impression, but it is written by industry with their profits in mind. Our elected officials represent them, not us.
Never use a mailbox that is permanently connected to YOU; your ISP, your work or whatever. OK, you probably have to use your work or school account sometimes- keep it to a minimum.
Use gmail, hotmail, any of the free services. Have one for family, one for friends, one for work, and at lest two for questionable email (people or businesses you may not want to continue with).
The key is that they are all disposable, unlike the one your ISP offers. You can dump any of them and open another if they become too spammy. Simply inform your favored correspondents first using the names associated with that mailbox. They will understand if they've ever received spam.
This assumes that you are using an email program that can manage many accounts in one place. If you've been going to a website with your browser to get your email, you need to reconsider.
"Recognize the World It Sees Into Concepts" ?
Either the editor is illiterate and made a gross grammar error, or the headline should read:
"Reorganize the World It Sees Into Concepts"
In defense of the editor, they usually just copy stuff from a source without reading it. Perhaps the source was wrong this time.
Anyone can claim a trademark. After using it a while, they can apply for registration. They will learn that some things qualify and some don't and some are indeterminate. A name like Xerox was easy to qualify because it was an invented word and nobody else had claimed it.
Even if you can register a TM, it may be challenged in court on various grounds. Suppose you claimed Lunch Time as a TM. It is far more likely than Xerox to have been used already and it is a risky choice. Someone might argue that Lunch Time is a common phrase undeserving of a trademark.
Failure to continuously use your TM can forfeit your rights. Failure to defend it in the face of others' using the same mark can forfeit your rights. IP law is complicated and not always rational and may have changed since I glanced at it in 1975.
The more you put on your storage device, the more you have to lose when it crashes.
So, add to the $500 cost of this device another $1,000 for your minimal backup system. Back up to a 2nd unit, then back that up to another. Keep them up-to-date. Keep one in a safe remote location. Reasonably safe if they are SanDisk brand. What? Oops!
Here's some info from the manual:
"The Visible Computer: 6502 Machine Language Teaching System combines
this manual with a 6502 simulator program to provide a systematic way
to learn machine language programming on Apple II computers.
The Visible Computer is a program that teaches programming. The title
is a takeoff on those transparent plastic models of men that once (and
maybe still do) populated sixth grade classrooms. Like The Visible
Man, The Visible Computer lets you see into a place not normally
accessible to the eye. Places like chest cavities and accumulators,
address latches and pancrei. Unlike The Visible Man, TVC requires no
assembly, no careful painting, and no smelly airplane glue."
TVC was a powerful combination of text, graphics and a kind of animation that showed things like registers changing as a program was executed. You could slow or even step thru a program and watch all elements moving around. At its fastest, the emulated program was still very slow in the early Apple computer, but the important thing was seeing it in action and really understanding what's under the hood. Simple to look at, elegant in execution. A version was available for Commodore 64, both by Charles Anderson.
This concept could be done today for modern computers if someone cared enough about coding education. You can see the 1982 manual here: https://archive.org/details/Th...
WOW, you're so smart! Apple needs to hire you immediately and get rid of all their marketing executives. And how clever of you to come out with your wisdom at the same time as other geniuses who read a single news item and immediately tell the world that they agree with it. Life is so simple when you have all the answers handed to you.
We've already had paintings and photos of our loved ones for a couple centuries. We can easily create audio & video keepsakes. How is this better? If we really want an animated freak show, I think a hologram would be more innovative. My Mexican neighbors can put the face of a departed loved one on a pinata and beat the crap out of it. (We sometimes have some animosity toward our closest relatives.)