InPro's patent described the use of a proxy server which downloaded data from the Web in response to a request from a device, then transposed the data to match the specific size and resolution of the device, according to The Times. The patent in question was granted in 1996.
And here I was — silly me — thinking that this sort of thing consituted a "method" and was therefore unpatentable in the UK! From the UKPO's web-site, the following are excuded:
a discovery;
a scientific theory or mathematical method;
an aesthetic creation such as a literary, dramatic or artistic work;
a scheme or method for performing a mental act, playing a game or doing business;
the presentation of information, or a computer program.
Don't 5, and possible 4, call this whole game into question?
So the choice of a UNIX platform has come and bit Apple in the ass. Could somebody tell me again why Apple abandoned its perfectly functional OS9 code? I didn't see anything wrong with the old Macs. What was the benefit of basing it on the legally ambiguous (and dying) BSD? And what's with this ugly DOS throwback? Who wants to see an old-fashioned text terminal on their computer?
CmdrTaco! Please add a "-1, Crap joke" moderation option.
why would someone go pay good money for a mac, only to install RadHat?
Because:
having one menu bar at the top of the screen is inappropriate for displays with ~1000 pixels in both directions
they hate DRM
they otherwise dislike/are frustrated by the whole "Mac Experience"
they'd like a whole bunch of software like LaTeX and other Free Software greats bundled
they like hacking on an operating system
they develop software for Linux
they know how a computer works
and, Heaven forbid:
they actually like Linux better than OSX!
Yes! There are people like that out there! Now, why don't you ask a sensible question like, "why would someone go pay good money for a Mac, only to install FreeBSD?" Oh, wait...
I wonder if this means we'll see that remake of (Disney's) TRON that John Lasseter wanted to make?
The script will need a little updating; i.e.,
I/O Tower has become Hardware Abstraction Layer;
MCP has become The Executive; and
Sark will now read nt.dll.
The Kraftwerk style luminous outfits are to be replaced with turtle-necks with blue LED epaulets. It shall be render'd verily on a Super Scrumpy S-1, the fastest Apple iPod ever built.
Hopefully someone more skilled than I will open a Free Software GL-based Spindizzy project on SourceForge (Freedizzy, anyone?). If you need to reminisce, as I do, have a look at this mapped solution (it's from the Commodore, but hey...)
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From TFA:
And here I was — silly me — thinking that this sort of thing consituted a "method" and was therefore unpatentable in the UK! From the UKPO's web-site, the following are excuded:
Don't 5, and possible 4, call this whole game into question?
That would imply a close shave with the Law.
..because DNA doesn't come with an EULA. This kind of reverse-engineering is allowed!
Wazzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap?!
That most of them have a back garden?
I just hope Bill Thompson isn't the type of alarmist hack who'd jump up and down and say, "Neh! Told you so!"
CmdrTaco! Please add a "-1, Crap joke" moderation option.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
I ain't got a fucking clue what you guys are talking about, but hey! When in Rome.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Now you know why Darth Vader always wore gloves.
And they can kiss my shiny hello.jpg (=O=).
Well I don't know about Gladiator, but I'll gladly, uh, "borrow" Shania Twain.
;)
Because:
and, Heaven forbid:
Yes! There are people like that out there! Now, why don't you ask a sensible question like, "why would someone go pay good money for a Mac, only to install FreeBSD?" Oh, wait...
The script will need a little updating; i.e.,
The Kraftwerk style luminous outfits are to be replaced with turtle-necks with blue LED epaulets. It shall be render'd verily on a Super Scrumpy S-1, the fastest Apple iPod ever built.
Just use SSH.
Um, doesn't the verb "to brick [it]" mean to crap oneself in en_GB?
in a twist of irony. Or the EFF.
From the PARO Q&A section:
Ai-ai-ai!
It can't have robotic puppies.
"Doctor! Doctor! I feel like a robotic pet!"
"Yes, yes, calm down. Aibo-leive you."
Better nail down the sofa, then!
Can horses use hand grenades?
Hopefully someone more skilled than I will open a Free Software GL-based Spindizzy project on SourceForge (Freedizzy, anyone?). If you need to reminisce, as I do, have a look at this mapped solution (it's from the Commodore, but hey...)
Yes, because being the owner of the world's largest collection of turtle necks is an expensive hobby.
Remember Spindizzy, that isometric 3D game with all the different screens to explore? The whole map fit in 11 kiB.
They don't make them like they used to.