Not really. And you don't even need to become a luddite. You just need to get a fucking clue and become a hacker (the good kind, though I am sure Apple lumps 'em all together, which is ironic considering Jobs and Woz got the initial money to become a company by selling blueboxes to steal long distance telephone calls from the phone company)
Apple doesn't appear to be suing CopyTrans, and they produce CopyTransManager as a free download. It lets me copy mp3 files onto my 3rd Gen iPod Touch directly. I've shitcanned iTunes. Granted, you have to download and pull the driver binaries out of Apple's big wad iTunesSetup.exe file to use it on an iPhone or iPod Touch. But it works great.
Because Apple was sitting on their patent suite and also relying on the fact that the first spreadsheet, Visicalc would ONLY run on their Apple II, they were suing more than just Taiwanese and Hong Kong cloners. They were suing American and Canadian companies producing Apple clone machines, like Orange Computer and Rainbow.
They needed to protect their Visicalc franchise, which was their bread and butter at the time.
Apple pioneered in the area of being a highly litigator Personal Computer manufacturer. It was one of their earliest successful practices.
To be fair, Don Lancaster then came out with 'The Cheap Video Cookbook' which is an entire book dedicated to very low chip-count raster character display. He used hacks like stealing high speed data streams like the address bus for the raster diplay. Work that was contemporary to the stuff Wozniak was doing.
Clive Sinclair took it to the most ridiculous limits, though. He crammed the display generation into a single ASIC that just sits alongside the Z80 in his ZX-80 computer.
RCA was involved in developing a lot of different tech in the period you discuss. Why did you mention LCDs three times in your comment? LCDs have nothing to do with raster displays (they use a completely different drive technique.) Further, LCDs and television displays were decades away from convergence, even in the time period of the Apple II.
There is something ugly about people who come into a discussion to 'fact-check' air-brush historical atrocities. Clearly you've done your homework on the matter and have an agenda behind your attempts to soften history's judgment of the murderous actions of the Soviet Communists in the 1930's. For goodness sake, tell us what that agenda is.
I find it even easier to just not log onto Facebook. And if you close your account, make sure to delete all Facebook cookies and password saves, as any inadvertent blundering into Facebook.com name-space will likely automatically 'reactivate' your account.
Adolescent pedophilia. There's a big difference, because a girl who has gone through puberty and is 17 is different from a 6 year old, and the 'pedophile' in each case is a totally different critter.
Oh, I have no problem with discussions about this and related topics. I'm just fed up with the slobbering hordes of "anti-fanboys" who show up every time Apple is mentioned (there is a similar but smaller reaction for Google, Microsoft and most other high-profile tech companies, Apple seems to be the main target for the "cool to hate" crowd and has been so for a while now).
These commenters rarely contribute to the discussion, don't bother reading up on the issues at hand and instead tend to just resort to fear-mongering, misinterpretations and of course outright name-calling.
You are exhibiting all the symptoms of cult-like behavior. You've got a set vocabulary of names to use for your perceived opponents, and stereotypical behavior sets to cast them into.
That makes you one of those Apple zealots that 'The Rest Of Us' have had to deal with for decades now. We're always happy to tell people like you to fuck off, btw.
I don't recall seeing Rupert Murdoch's name on any ballot papers.
It was a secret ballot. The ballots literally were printed on green paper, and the fairness of the election was strictly regulated by the government. So of course, none of the candidates have their names printed on them.
The ballots, of course, were dollars, or your local currency.
LOL, are you trying to prove my point? Commercial speech is not and should not be protected.
What about political advertisement? Are you going to pull out a 'boiler plate' argument against any private spending on political campaigns? If not, to what degree do you think the spending needs to be controlled? Should Unions be barred from participating in politics? How about businesses?
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It's only free for the first several seconds after you download and install it.
And even then it's only free-as-in-beer.
Your only other choice is to become f'ing Amish.
Not really. And you don't even need to become a luddite. You just need to get a fucking clue and become a hacker (the good kind, though I am sure Apple lumps 'em all together, which is ironic considering Jobs and Woz got the initial money to become a company by selling blueboxes to steal long distance telephone calls from the phone company)
Apple doesn't appear to be suing CopyTrans, and they produce CopyTransManager as a free download. It lets me copy mp3 files onto my 3rd Gen iPod Touch directly. I've shitcanned iTunes. Granted, you have to download and pull the driver binaries out of Apple's big wad iTunesSetup.exe file to use it on an iPhone or iPod Touch. But it works great.
Also, we should wipe out world hunger.
Because Apple was sitting on their patent suite and also relying on the fact that the first spreadsheet, Visicalc would ONLY run on their Apple II, they were suing more than just Taiwanese and Hong Kong cloners. They were suing American and Canadian companies producing Apple clone machines, like Orange Computer and Rainbow.
They needed to protect their Visicalc franchise, which was their bread and butter at the time.
Apple pioneered in the area of being a highly litigator Personal Computer manufacturer. It was one of their earliest successful practices.
To be fair, Don Lancaster then came out with 'The Cheap Video Cookbook' which is an entire book dedicated to very low chip-count raster character display. He used hacks like stealing high speed data streams like the address bus for the raster diplay. Work that was contemporary to the stuff Wozniak was doing.
Clive Sinclair took it to the most ridiculous limits, though. He crammed the display generation into a single ASIC that just sits alongside the Z80 in his ZX-80 computer.
What exactly has Jobs been doing to innovate, or contribute to the world?
Buying transplatable organs?
RCA was involved in developing a lot of different tech in the period you discuss. Why did you mention LCDs three times in your comment? LCDs have nothing to do with raster displays (they use a completely different drive technique.) Further, LCDs and television displays were decades away from convergence, even in the time period of the Apple II.
And the primary target for harassment and hate of the KKK was the Roman Catholic Church.
Do you really remember details about the KKK and not know that??
Well, it's nice to see a card carrying Communist chime into the discussion.
There is something ugly about people who come into a discussion to 'fact-check' air-brush historical atrocities. Clearly you've done your homework on the matter and have an agenda behind your attempts to soften history's judgment of the murderous actions of the Soviet Communists in the 1930's. For goodness sake, tell us what that agenda is.
I find it even easier to just not log onto Facebook. And if you close your account, make sure to delete all Facebook cookies and password saves, as any inadvertent blundering into Facebook.com name-space will likely automatically 'reactivate' your account.
Do you earn extra points for making sure you use 'shit' or 'fuck' in almost every paragraph?
Nice sustained trolling session, btw. You got a whole sub-thread wound up.
Adolescent pedophilia. There's a big difference, because a girl who has gone through puberty and is 17 is different from a 6 year old, and the 'pedophile' in each case is a totally different critter.
Sorry, but if its 'people have meth' or 'people get violated in the middle of the night' I'll choose people can have meth.
What you'll get instead is 'people who have meth violate you in the middle of the night.'
No, really. Meth abuse may be a victimless crime, but meth addicts can't hold down a regular job. So they need your 'stuff' to sell at the pawnshop.
Oohh, how about a fancy C&C machine.
I think you mean CNC which stands for 'Computer Numerical Control.'
Don't stop playing gin every morning in the breakroom. You won't be getting the promotion.
Your 'monkey presses button, is rewarded with food pellet' mindset doesn't work well here. Maybe find another site to post on.
Can we just throw the fucking thing into Mount Doom, now, please?
No, not 'the world of technology.'
Explicitly: apple.slashdot.org has become that utterly uninteresting. Remember, this isn't the real slashdot. This is the fanboi domain.
Apparently he didn't catch the news that slashdot was a bling-wanna site now. Happy Consumers. Joy. etc.
You are exhibiting all the symptoms of cult-like behavior. You've got a set vocabulary of names to use for your perceived opponents, and stereotypical behavior sets to cast them into.
That makes you one of those Apple zealots that 'The Rest Of Us' have had to deal with for decades now. We're always happy to tell people like you to fuck off, btw.
I bet your partner hears you murmuring 'Altivec' at night when you're asleep.
I think people would be a little surprised if they realized just how dense and shallow most journalists are.
The old saying goes that when you flunk calculus and can't get admitted to the English Department, you transfer to J-School.
I don't recall seeing Rupert Murdoch's name on any ballot papers.
It was a secret ballot. The ballots literally were printed on green paper, and the fairness of the election was strictly regulated by the government. So of course, none of the candidates have their names printed on them.
The ballots, of course, were dollars, or your local currency.
LOL, are you trying to prove my point? Commercial speech is not and should not be protected.
What about political advertisement? Are you going to pull out a 'boiler plate' argument against any private spending on political campaigns? If not, to what degree do you think the spending needs to be controlled? Should Unions be barred from participating in politics? How about businesses?