He seems to be using a variant of the "big lie" wrapping some pieces of truth in the bigger lie. He does appear to have a valid copyright registration for a computer program entitled "EMAIL." from 1982.
He's then taking advantage of the mainstream press' unfamiliarity with copyrights vs trademarks vs patents AND their unfamiliarity with software technology--or even willingness to read something as basic as the wikipedia entry for email to realize that 1982 was late to the party and at best the guy did develop a neat computer program at a young age, but certainly is in no way is the inventor of email as a technology.
Shame on the media as much as on him.
Respect your decision.
That said, at the point where the only thing you need to have is an initial for last name, so "John S" or what not works for John Smith AND you can opt the profile out of search, I think it is a very small circle of people who will have issues.
It has not been my experience that the useful lifetime of a laptop is 5 years, 2-3 for a laptop that is regularly moved day-in-day out seems to be more realistic. Not saying that the machine drops dead after 36 months, just that the life cycle is usually shorter than 5, certainly for college 4 would be a better comparison, you get a computer right before you start school and keep it to the end.
I think IF you have a @mac.com one you CANNOT change it. I've tried repeatedly, I've followed the knowledge base links, I've contacted their email support and searched the web, and the reality is that if you used to be xxxx@mac.com you will always be xxxx@mac.com.
That said if you can point to a counter example, I would welcome it.
Except for small islands of assembly language software, the switch from the Motorola 680X0 to the PPC in the 90's was actually quite succesful.
They put an emulator into the OS and 95%+ of things just ran fine, but a bit slow at first. Evenutally native PPC software came out and on things went with minimal hiccups.
I think in aggregate CR doesn't pull punches, that said their evaluation criteria may not match yours and in their framework of evaluations perhaps overall products have improved since the 70s.
As a simple hypothetical to illustrate this latter point, the TV of 1971 and the TV of 2005 are very different beasts (even in the older "analog" tube variety). I would say that probably uniformly the worst 2005 TV is probably more passable than some of the best 1971 TVs...
Just one thought, although presented as [source] code signing, perhaps this may have applicability in a system like Windows where code signing is used to allow the "object code" to run--or run without extra hassle.
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He seems to be using a variant of the "big lie" wrapping some pieces of truth in the bigger lie. He does appear to have a valid copyright registration for a computer program entitled "EMAIL." from 1982. He's then taking advantage of the mainstream press' unfamiliarity with copyrights vs trademarks vs patents AND their unfamiliarity with software technology--or even willingness to read something as basic as the wikipedia entry for email to realize that 1982 was late to the party and at best the guy did develop a neat computer program at a young age, but certainly is in no way is the inventor of email as a technology. Shame on the media as much as on him.
Respect your decision. That said, at the point where the only thing you need to have is an initial for last name, so "John S" or what not works for John Smith AND you can opt the profile out of search, I think it is a very small circle of people who will have issues.
It has not been my experience that the useful lifetime of a laptop is 5 years, 2-3 for a laptop that is regularly moved day-in-day out seems to be more realistic. Not saying that the machine drops dead after 36 months, just that the life cycle is usually shorter than 5, certainly for college 4 would be a better comparison, you get a computer right before you start school and keep it to the end.
Nope, once @mac.com, always @mac.com. You CAN change the email address stuff goes to.
I think IF you have a @mac.com one you CANNOT change it. I've tried repeatedly, I've followed the knowledge base links, I've contacted their email support and searched the web, and the reality is that if you used to be xxxx@mac.com you will always be xxxx@mac.com.
That said if you can point to a counter example, I would welcome it.
Except for small islands of assembly language software, the switch from the Motorola 680X0 to the PPC in the 90's was actually quite succesful. They put an emulator into the OS and 95%+ of things just ran fine, but a bit slow at first. Evenutally native PPC software came out and on things went with minimal hiccups.
I think in aggregate CR doesn't pull punches, that said their evaluation criteria may not match yours and in their framework of evaluations perhaps overall products have improved since the 70s. As a simple hypothetical to illustrate this latter point, the TV of 1971 and the TV of 2005 are very different beasts (even in the older "analog" tube variety). I would say that probably uniformly the worst 2005 TV is probably more passable than some of the best 1971 TVs...
Amen pitpart!
Not respectful, not on topic, not even clear what the complaint is.
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If I were HP, would delete it simply for incoherence.
See http://thomashawk.com/hello/305309/1024/HP%20Comm
Just one thought, although presented as [source] code signing, perhaps this may have applicability in a system like Windows where code signing is used to allow the "object code" to run--or run without extra hassle.