'Baby' as it was known was indeed general purpose. It could load a program from an operator and run it from memory (don't get more general purpose than that).
It was then made into the first commercially-available general-purpose computer ever in February 1951, called Ferranti Mk. 1
So the UNIVAC isn't the first computer in any aspect at all. Figures.
I know this is said every time someone mentions one of the old computers, but:
Bureau of the Census dedicated the world's first electronic general purpose data processing computer, UNIVAC I, on June 14, 1951. Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation
What about all the other computers that were made before then? True, Turing's computer wasn't technically 'general purpose' but what about the Baby? That first worked nearly 3 years before. But then, this isn't the first time a certain large-country-between-the-Pacific-and-the-Atlantic claimed inventing something first when it didn't (lightbulb, plane, car etc. etc.)
Americans fruitlessly crying about privacy laws they lost years ago.
Grow up you lot - you don't see other countries acting so childish about laws that are there to protect you.
If there was a stalker around your neighbourhood, I bet you'd want the police to have a quick look through your house/garden for him with that receiver. You're so two-faced it's almost (I saw the election) unbelievable.
It's referring to those people who use Online Content Providers (Freeserve, AOL etc). This system will let them break out onto other pages. Where's the downside to that?
Unfair to whom? The people who can now have access to thousands of pages of RELATED material, who could not get it through search engines, because of spamming pages, etc.?
... then all you lot would be whooping around, screaming with joy. Just because it's Microsoft, you think they're being evil, trying to take away some sort of pathetic ammendment to your constitution (which is more tape than paper these days, btw). If Linus had done it, you would have heralded him a Lord of the Internet - the person who finally broke the barriers of the web and provided rapid data access and international glossaries.
Now wipe that evil scowl off your face. And the other one.
That bit at the top would make sense, but you didn't enter the war until 1942 or something stupid like that (when the Japanese performed an excellent raid on Pearl Harbour). We'd already been fighting for 3 years (and beat off the german air force).
If you don't do anything wrong, who gives a f**k about privacy? I don't have cameras in my house, but the people looking out for me on the street (Police, CCTV etc) I have the greatest admiration for.
If that's your attitude, I hope you are mugged under a disused CCTV camera. That would be ironic. (just pointing it out for the Americans/Alanis Morisette out there)
It's not there to survive a 1kt nuclear blast, but to survive a staged attack by people wanting to cause havoc/damage to the servers. It could also withstand 400 elephants dropped on it, bombarded by angry goats, shot at repeatedly for 5 years with a chain gun, lasered into the ground etc... etc... the 1kt is just it's MAXIMUM threshhold for structural integrity, not what it's hoping to withstand
Of course it's not going to be of any use (apart from backup) when there is a nuclear attack, but when 50 crusties are running at it with their scraggly dogs on bits of string, it'll be there in the morning (unlike that MacDonald's in Trafalgar Square after last years May Day riots).
I completely agree with it. It's something too abstract and unquantifiable that there really can't be an argument about it. It's like the English suing the Australians for speaking English - how, exactly, would one nation copyright it's language, and where do infringements occur?
'IP'? what's that? And I don't mind the comic aspect (we are funny people, anyway) - it's just the blatant lies in all the hollywood films that's amoral.
What would I need an ISA for? I have a 1GHz P3 PC, and I'm using my old 56k v90 ISA modem I bought back in 96/97. It's the fastest modem I've seen. Better than that soft-modem crap.
I'm sure if Steve Jobs called it 'super-smiley-face-bus' you'd love it. probably literally.
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It was then made into the first commercially-available general-purpose computer ever in February 1951, called Ferranti Mk. 1
So the UNIVAC isn't the first computer in any aspect at all. Figures.
Bureau of the Census dedicated the world's first electronic general purpose data processing computer, UNIVAC I, on June 14, 1951. Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation
What about all the other computers that were made before then? True, Turing's computer wasn't technically 'general purpose' but what about the Baby? That first worked nearly 3 years before. But then, this isn't the first time a certain large-country-between-the-Pacific-and-the-Atlantic claimed inventing something first when it didn't (lightbulb, plane, car etc. etc.)
Grow up you lot - you don't see other countries acting so childish about laws that are there to protect you.
If there was a stalker around your neighbourhood, I bet you'd want the police to have a quick look through your house/garden for him with that receiver. You're so two-faced it's almost (I saw the election) unbelievable.
It's referring to those people who use Online Content Providers (Freeserve, AOL etc). This system will let them break out onto other pages. Where's the downside to that?
Look past the company - it's a good idea.
Now wipe that evil scowl off your face. And the other one.
He's a modest man. Really down to earth.
Hey - at least it's the right side of the straits of Gibraltar :)
That bit at the top would make sense, but you didn't enter the war until 1942 or something stupid like that (when the Japanese performed an excellent raid on Pearl Harbour). We'd already been fighting for 3 years (and beat off the german air force).
Going down the toilet? saving millions of lives? Nice work, mr. capitalist.
What about the photos taken of the wreck that clearly showed shell holes in the wings (large calibre, bursting out of the top of the wing)?
I'm no great fan of the French (all that surrendering and running away - but that's another story) but they *sometimes* come up with the goods.
(plus they have tomahawks, trident subs, apaches and the sas :))
If that's your attitude, I hope you are mugged under a disused CCTV camera. That would be ironic. (just pointing it out for the Americans/Alanis Morisette out there)
... and how did those wire cutters dig deep into the ground to get the fibre line? It's not just run across the ground you know... :)
Of course it's not going to be of any use (apart from backup) when there is a nuclear attack, but when 50 crusties are running at it with their scraggly dogs on bits of string, it'll be there in the morning (unlike that MacDonald's in Trafalgar Square after last years May Day riots).
No-one was going to call you dumb, just ignorant. And you've just proved that. thanks!
'Windoze'? Grow the fuck up. No-one's going to take you seriously if you have to stoop to playground name-calling to make you look clever.
I completely agree with it. It's something too abstract and unquantifiable that there really can't be an argument about it. It's like the English suing the Australians for speaking English - how, exactly, would one nation copyright it's language, and where do infringements occur?
'IP'? what's that? And I don't mind the comic aspect (we are funny people, anyway) - it's just the blatant lies in all the hollywood films that's amoral.
And so is portraying those mauri guys as little plastic men - so what's everyone's point?
I find it funny that Americans are arguing about culture. I've never seen a homeless person argue about someone else's house.
The same with that U571 and Saving Private Ryan bullshit they made
... The British should sue the asses off the American studios for consistently lying about it's history, and portraying them in a bad light.
I'm sure if Steve Jobs called it 'super-smiley-face-bus' you'd love it. probably literally.