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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 05:40 AM EDT |
ASCII ??
Naa, do it properly and make it EBCDIC.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 08:43 AM EDT |
As Apple’s products
evolved, so did a strategy to
protect them
I think it may formally have evolved, the contents looks
quite
the same for many decades. Or what is the big difference between
a
"look and feel" and a design patent claim?
I think one could
argue Apple is already for a long time
involved in blocking competition with
legal claims about patents
and copyright and was itself victim of it's policy.
They where
busy eliminating competition in the 1980's and 1990's, for
instance
against Digital
Research's GEM and others, but failed to do so against Microsoft. They
essentially lost and Microsoft had of
course other "techniques" to
create a
monopoly. Apple could not cope with them. It's market
share became close to
irrelevant.
But would Microsoft have had it that easy if the other
competition would have had the opportunity to grow and not have
been hampered
by treats and lawsuits from Apple? And would this
way of fighting competition
not have become that popular?
I for example saw a great OS on my ATARI ST in the
mid 1980's,
using the GEM OS from Digital Research, but that OS
hardly improved for many
years. Only until MINT, an
externally
developed free software, inspired on Unix, became the official
Atari OS some 10 years later, one saw real improvement. But
already to late to
safe the
line of products.
Of course this is a question, but image the
damage done by
Apple if the answer would be yes. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 10:16 AM EDT |
No - not the UI, the name of the UI. Deep
speculation is that somebody already owned
the trade mark "Metro", but
Microsoft doesn't admit that.
They just pretend that was only a code name,
despite the
fact that the Windows phone 7 has been marketed with that
name for
nearly a year now.
The comments are full of people with helpful
suggestions
as to a new name for the UI. My favourite: "PAIN 4
Windows
8". [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 11:26 AM EDT |
A $30,000 plan to digitize a 415-year-old Elizabethan globe for
three-dimensional online viewing by British Columbians has been sunk by the
Royal B.C. Museum, says Sam Bawlf, the former provincial heritage minister who
organized the project.
[...]
Subject of the controversy is a globe made in
1597 by English mathematician Emery Molyneux.
It’s the only surviving copy
of one made six years earlier for Queen Elizabeth I to commemorate Francis
Drake’s epic journey to the west coast of North America almost 200 years before
James Cook arrived.
Stephen Hume, The Vancouver Sun
Sam Bawlf is a
pioneering independent historical researcher who has added tremendously to our
knowledge of early west coast European explorers. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 02:33 PM EDT |
So megacorps get to strangle the local merchants and stall owners during 'their'
olympic$.
Nothing less than total control -in the guise of 'security'- will satisfy. (Hey,
maybe that should be spelled $ecurity...)
Too much money in the olympics has prostituted the sports.
The London Olympics 2012: Doping, match-rigging, and corporate control. Is it
worth it, England?
- And that's not counting corruption, social cleansing, and year-long debt for
the locals that normally gets associated with the 'honor' of staging the
corporate show)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 04:09 PM EDT |
This story at Forbes is pretty disturbing,
especially for anyone who owns guns and has one of those cheap gun safes to
store them in.
If you own one of these cheap safes -- be aware that it is
COMPLETELY insecure and unsafe! Read this article, so that what happened to the
police officer (whose young child opened the safe and then died of a gunshot
wound) does not happen to your family too.
The manufacturers won't admit
they are unsafe, retailers won't stop stocking them, police departments won't
stop issuing them to their officers... and they can be opened by a three
year-old who simply lifts them an inch or two and drops them. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: jplatt39 on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 04:54 PM EDT |
you
can't make this stuff up. via
Wired.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/briefcase-marvel-dvd/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 06:43 PM EDT |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/nasas-curiosity-rover-succ
essfully-touches-down-on-mars/2012/08/03/0ecae292-dce2-11e1-9974-5c975ae4810f_vi
deo.html ]
Let's hope they are correct.
It's now 404.
Hopefully, it will work again in about 56 hours.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 10:14 PM EDT |
How does this decision:
MPAA Suffers Legal Setback in Big Copyright Decision affect the
MegaUpload case? Seems to me the FBI's case of piracy is totally squashed.
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