In reality, if you read his bio, the 'patent clerk' bit was more the hobby9 especially in his bosses opinon;-), done so he could put food on the table (and have a table to go under it).
'not yet employed in a professional capacity' 'hobby'
The Power Computing case had nada, zip, zilch, zero to do with anything remotely related to copyright.
(sigh)
Power Computing (and the other clone manufacturers) lost their licenses because the CEO of Apple determined that if the company he was legally responsible for was to survive, the cloners' licenses had to go. The clones were in fact NOT increasing Apple's market share, which meant that they were poaching dollars from Apple, selling hardware cheap.
Apple makes its money from selling its hardware. The systems were theirs to license, or not. The systems are yours to buy, or not. Vote with your pocketbook.
Y'all rant about 'Free software' then piss and moan when the beer isn't free.
The fact that no one else is making PPC mobo's for your use is NO FAULT of Apple's; it's not exactly like Motorola would turn down other customers for their chips, they have Intel breathing down their necks.
Uhhh, in the short run, AMD may have problems doing anything with the Athlon...all of the recommended MoBo manufacturers for the Athlon are in Taiwan, and those factories are in varying degrees of earthquake-induced non-functionality.
The earthquake in Taiwan is going to put a crimp in many manufacturers Christmas quarters...
Also, AMD licenced the Cu technology from Moto, so it's not all that out of line for this deal to happen.
Churchill didn't withhold Ultra stuff to accelerate our entry into the war, he withheld it because it was the single most secret secret on the planet. Churchill more than once allowed Britich troops to die to hide the fact that Ultra could read Enigma transmissions, when they thought the Germans would deduce that the only way for the Brits to have known something was codebreaking. Every bit of intel ever released from Ultra had a cover from some other intel source. In fact, hiding Ultra decodes as intercepted paper, first hand leaks, etc was a major part of British Intelligence work during WWII A useful side effect of this was that the Nazi counterintelligence program spent much of the war chasing non-existent spies.
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Been done, also the original 'Spam Cam' was aimed at an uncanned Spam sitting on a plate for 6 months...quite gross.
I doubt the site still exists, this was several years ago...
My car will be, soon...yep, they have these little stickers you paste on your licence plate. next year everyone gets to drive around arizona with a little sticker on it telling 'em they live in:
Not so cheap a machine...that 9500 will take a 400 mHz G3 upgrade just fine, and it's the last of the 6-slot motherboards, with 8 ram slots. That's a box with a lot of potential. True, the box goes for about $1000 or so on the market, but linuxPPC.org doesn't exactly have the financial resources of a MicroShaft:-/
Ahhh...another idiot who never saw one...
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Ohmigawd you have to write on the Newton with a 'special' stylus!!! How unlike the perfectly _ordinary_ stylus on the Palm.
In a way it's too fsking bad that Garry Trudeau apparently reached the height of his cultural influence with the Newton...he singlehandedly set the state of the art back a decade or so, because it's the first damn thing _any_one mentions when they mention the Newton, or handwriting recognition in general.
No 1.0 technology could stand up to that sort of ridicule, and it showed: no one but Apple and a couple of others tried to even enter the field.
The Palm, while it _is_ a neat hack, has exactly one thing, it's size, going for it. It gets around the handwriting recognition curse by not offering any.
You have to letter (not write) things in one letter at a time, in a made-up alphabet.
Even my aged Newt 100 lets me write anywhere on the screen, and if I use it in _letter_ recognition mode, it recognizes my handwriting pretty damn well.
In it's final incarntion, the Newton handwriting recognition was fast and nearly flawless. Too bad Apple's not doing anything with the technology...
It's ironic, too that one of the things the author faults the Palm for, it's tiny little screen, is one of the things everyone raves about: 'it's small enough to stick in my pocket!'
Per the Encyclopedia Britannica (ok,ok, I know, it's all a British Plot)
"Santos-Dumont, Alberto
b. July 20, 1873, Cabangu, near Palmyra [now Santos-Dumont], Minas Gerais, Braz. d. July 23, 1932, Guarujá, São Paulo
Brazilian aviation pioneer who in 1909 produced his famous "Demoiselle" or "Grasshopper" monoplanes, the forerunners of the modern light plane. Santos-Dumont was educated in France, where he spent most of his life. Becoming interested in aerial flight, he made a balloon ascent in 1898 and then began to construct dirigible airships.
After many failures he built one that in 1901 won the Deutsch Prize and a prize from the Brazilian government for the first flight in a given time from Saint-Cloud to the Eiffel Tower and return.
Shortly after the Wright brothers' flights in 1903, Santos-Dumont turned his attention to heavier-than-air machines. After experimenting with a vertical-propeller model, in 1906 he built a machine, the 14-bis, on the principle of the box kite, and in October he won the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize for the first officially observed powered flight in Europe; in November he flew 220 metres in 21 seconds. "
Note, Dumont's 1901 flight was in a _lighter_than air craft, a dirigible, not a heavier than air craft.
The Wright Flyer did fly free, in fact. Soon after their first short flight they were making considerably longer ones. The original 1903 flyer made four flights on Dec 17th 1903: 120, 175, 200, and 852 feet (36.6, 53.3, 61, and 260 m)
Mostly, this is because Micro Conversions wanted the whole pie.
The ONLY thing preventing people from using a Wintel-branded VooDoo card at a third to half the cost was the fact that there wasn't a Mac driver for it. Micro Conversions wrote one.
Micro Conversions wanted to be the only VooDoo provider in the Mac Market. Had they licensed their drivers to other video card manufacturers, they'd likely be in business today.
(and all those other manufacturers would realize the market they were missing...something to consider, all you Linux device-driver writers...)
Excuse me, but I just _love_ that generalization 'reach every household"
HAHAHAHA
Cablemodems are available to something like 10% of the population of the US, or less.
ASDL _may_ be available to a bit more, but those percentages overlap to a great degree.
Besides, they still don't even get POTS right here in US Pest land (Tucson, AZ)...last week a guy spent hours pinned under a car in a garage because his calls to 911 were being registered as coming from a house two blocks away.
Irony of ironies...this happened the day _after_ the state Coporation Commision finally dismissed his complaints against US Pest as having been fixed.
Still gotta carry my trusty Victorinox Camper model...my leatherman doesn't have a corkscrew or woodsaw...both of which I have used in the course of sysadminning...
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In reality, if you read his bio, the 'patent clerk' bit was more the hobby9 especially in his bosses opinon ;-), done so he could put food on the table (and have a table to go under it).
'not yet employed in a professional capacity' 'hobby'
The Power Computing case had nada, zip, zilch, zero to do with anything remotely related to copyright.
(sigh)
Power Computing (and the other clone manufacturers) lost their licenses because the CEO of Apple determined that if the company he was legally responsible for was to survive, the cloners' licenses had to go. The clones were in fact NOT increasing Apple's market share, which meant that they were poaching dollars from Apple, selling hardware cheap.
Apple makes its money from selling its hardware. The systems were theirs to license, or not. The systems are yours to buy, or not. Vote with your pocketbook.
Y'all rant about 'Free software' then piss and moan when the beer isn't free.
The fact that no one else is making PPC mobo's for your use is NO FAULT of Apple's; it's not exactly like Motorola would turn down other customers for their chips, they have Intel breathing down their necks.
Uhhh, in the short run, AMD may have problems doing anything with the Athlon...all of the recommended MoBo manufacturers for the Athlon are in Taiwan, and those factories are in varying degrees of earthquake-induced non-functionality.
The earthquake in Taiwan is going to put a crimp in many manufacturers Christmas quarters...
Also, AMD licenced the Cu technology from Moto, so it's not all that out of line for this deal to happen.
Churchill didn't withhold Ultra stuff to accelerate our entry into the war, he withheld it because it was the single most secret secret on the planet. Churchill more than once allowed Britich troops to die to hide the fact that Ultra could read Enigma transmissions, when they thought the Germans would deduce that the only way for the Brits to have known something was codebreaking. Every bit of intel ever released from Ultra had a cover from some other intel source. In fact, hiding Ultra decodes as intercepted paper, first hand leaks, etc was a major part of British Intelligence work during WWII A useful side effect of this was that the Nazi counterintelligence program spent much of the war chasing non-existent spies.
Been done, also the original 'Spam Cam' was aimed at an uncanned Spam sitting on a plate for 6 months...quite gross.
I doubt the site still exists, this was several years ago...
ooo a kibobot.
didn't sergar argic do that a long time ago?
My car will be, soon...yep, they have these little stickers you paste on your licence plate. next year everyone gets to drive around arizona with a little sticker on it telling 'em they live in:
;-)
AZ00
Finally ADOT got something right!
Not so cheap a machine...that 9500 will take a 400 mHz G3 upgrade just fine, and it's the last of the 6-slot motherboards, with 8 ram slots. That's a box with a lot of potential. True, the box goes for about $1000 or so on the market, but linuxPPC.org doesn't exactly have the financial resources of a MicroShaft :-/
Ohmigawd you have to write on the Newton with a 'special' stylus!!! How unlike the perfectly _ordinary_ stylus on the Palm.
In a way it's too fsking bad that Garry Trudeau apparently reached the height of his cultural influence with the Newton...he singlehandedly set the state of the art back a decade or so, because it's the first damn thing _any_one mentions when they mention the Newton, or handwriting recognition in general.
No 1.0 technology could stand up to that sort of ridicule, and it showed: no one but Apple and a couple of others tried to even enter the field.
The Palm, while it _is_ a neat hack, has exactly one thing, it's size, going for it. It gets around the handwriting recognition curse by not offering any.
You have to letter (not write) things in one letter at a time, in a made-up alphabet.
Even my aged Newt 100 lets me write anywhere on the screen, and if I use it in _letter_ recognition mode, it recognizes my handwriting pretty damn well.
In it's final incarntion, the Newton handwriting recognition was fast and nearly flawless. Too bad Apple's not doing anything with the technology...
It's ironic, too that one of the things the author faults the Palm for, it's tiny little screen, is one of the things everyone raves about: 'it's small enough to stick in my pocket!'
Not so fast there...
Per the Encyclopedia Britannica (ok,ok, I know, it's all a British Plot)
"Santos-Dumont, Alberto
b. July 20, 1873, Cabangu, near Palmyra [now Santos-Dumont], Minas
Gerais, Braz.
d. July 23, 1932, Guarujá, São Paulo
Brazilian aviation pioneer who in 1909 produced his famous "Demoiselle" or "Grasshopper" monoplanes, the forerunners of the modern light plane.
Santos-Dumont was educated in France, where he spent most of his life. Becoming interested in aerial flight, he made a balloon ascent in 1898 and then began to construct dirigible airships.
After many failures he built one that in
1901 won the Deutsch Prize and a prize from the
Brazilian government for the first flight in a given time from Saint-Cloud to the Eiffel Tower and return.
Shortly after the Wright brothers' flights in 1903, Santos-Dumont turned his attention to heavier-than-air machines. After experimenting with a vertical-propeller model, in 1906 he built a machine, the 14-bis, on the principle of the box kite, and in October he won the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize for the first officially observed powered flight in Europe; in November he flew 220 metres in 21 seconds. "
Note, Dumont's 1901 flight was in a _lighter_than air craft, a dirigible, not a heavier than air craft.
The Wright Flyer did fly free, in fact. Soon after their first short flight they were making considerably longer ones. The original 1903 flyer made four flights on Dec 17th 1903: 120, 175, 200, and 852 feet (36.6, 53.3, 61, and 260 m)
My god!!! Steven King is able to write _anything_ in less than 1300 pages???!!!
Try Sun Remarketing, http://www.sunrem.com
/// system utilities disk. $15.00
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They're pricey, but right now I saw a Apple
More sigh...they used to sell Lisas cheap, too.
And this is _really_ making me want to go find that landfill in Utah that has all the unsold Lisas buried in it. _Real_ computer archaeology!
Mostly, this is because Micro Conversions wanted the whole pie.
The ONLY thing preventing people from using a Wintel-branded VooDoo card at a third to half the cost was the fact that there wasn't a Mac driver for it. Micro Conversions wrote one.
Micro Conversions wanted to be the only VooDoo provider in the Mac Market. Had they licensed their drivers to other video card manufacturers, they'd likely be in business today.
(and all those other manufacturers would realize the market they were missing...something to consider, all you Linux device-driver writers...)
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Excuse me, but I just _love_ that generalization 'reach every household"
HAHAHAHA
Cablemodems are available to something like 10% of the population of the US, or less.
ASDL _may_ be available to a bit more, but those percentages overlap to a great degree.
Besides, they still don't even get POTS right here in US Pest land (Tucson, AZ)...last week a guy spent hours pinned under a car in a garage because his calls to 911 were being registered as coming from a house two blocks away.
Irony of ironies...this happened the day _after_ the state Coporation Commision finally dismissed his complaints against US Pest as having been fixed.
Tired old story...you can cop a lot more known good credit card numbers working as a waitron for a few weeks...
Why bother with high tech when low cunning works just as well???
Still gotta carry my trusty Victorinox Camper model ...my leatherman doesn't have a corkscrew or woodsaw...both of which I have used in the course of sysadminning...