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Living Room / Re: History of CP/M
« Last post by Mark0 on November 09, 2012, 08:29 AM »
The whole V20/C64 family's architecture was pretty weird to begin with since the memory map got shifted around whenever a cartridge was plugged into them. The Vic-20 was the most confusing. They fixed that mess somewhat with the C64. But not by much.
-40hz (November 04, 2012, 06:10 AM)

That! I have vague memories about overlapping ROM & RAM, so that for some locations if you PEEK, you read from ROM; if you POKE you wrote in RAM! DOH!  ;D
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Living Room / Re: Apple's difficult products
« Last post by Mark0 on November 09, 2012, 08:07 AM »
The Ping failure actually surprised me a bit.
Not that I was directly interested, but at launch I taught that it was the typical thing that Apple could pull of well, given the leverage they have in the music biz, the numbers of people using their store, etc. It seems that they have made more than one mistakes on that.

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Living Room / Re: No Duty to Secure Wi-Fi from BitTorrent Pirates, Judge Rules
« Last post by Mark0 on September 13, 2012, 10:47 AM »
That!
Today big companies & interest groups are bending the laws so much that the common sense is almost totally lost.
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Mark0 on September 13, 2012, 10:44 AM »
Gizmodo - How the New iPod Nano Copied the Nokia Lumia (Or How the Lumia Copied the iPod Nano)

 :D  :D
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Mark0 on September 05, 2012, 06:49 AM »
It all seems very much messed up.
131
Living Room / Re: Apple Patents Shutting Down Phones and Functions
« Last post by Mark0 on September 05, 2012, 06:24 AM »
That Braun vs Apple is fantastic!  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Mark0 on September 05, 2012, 06:23 AM »
Groklaw - Apple v Samsung Foreman Gets More Things Wrong ~pj

This is in the believe it or not category, but the foreman in the Apple v Samsung trial is *still* talking about the verdict and why the jurors did what they did. And the more he talks, the worse it gets for that verdict.

I would quote, but the article is very small so it's probably better to just give a quick look.
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Mark0 on September 01, 2012, 06:16 PM »
Also from the Black Rectangles With Rounded Corners department, here's the LG Prada.



announced: December 12, 2006
images leaked: December 15, 2006
iPhone presentation: January, 2007
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Mark0 on September 01, 2012, 06:08 PM »
Did MPEG4 exist in 2001 ?
-Carol Haynes (September 01, 2012, 06:04 PM)

Oh, yes.
The LG iPAD probably never went to sale, or maybe just in Korea, but that demo was real.
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Mark0 on September 01, 2012, 06:37 AM »
Blast from the past:

LinuxDevices.com - LG demonstrates wireless Linux Web pad at CeBIT
By Rick Lehrbaum 2001-03-23
The iPad is powered by a 206Mhz Intel SA-1110 system-on-chip processor and an in-built 64 SDRAM module. It offers some expandability with a slot for Flash memory cards and PCMCIA cards. To operate the devices, users are given a stylus and the pad provides handwriting recognition for both English and Korean.

How dare you, Apple! :P
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Mark0 on September 01, 2012, 05:33 AM »
That jury foreman also hold a patent for something like a TiVo. Obtained after the TiVo & similar thing was already in existance, obviously. :facepalm:
And the reasoning he used to discard all the prior art presented and "move on faster" is really preposterous.
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Mark0 on August 31, 2012, 08:45 AM »
Surely not a real ad. They don't get this good!  ;D
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Mark0 on August 31, 2012, 08:10 AM »


Spoiler
Be it a Galaxy Nexus, it's even better and cheaper!  ;D

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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Mark0 on August 29, 2012, 01:09 PM »
Oh my... :facepalm:

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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Mark0 on August 27, 2012, 11:36 AM »
Especially when, as also written in the Jury instructions, damages are not supposed to punish, but only to compensate for losses.

That strange thing is that all the discussions will end up arguing on this kind of details, only to go around the giant absurdity of the current american patent law.
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Mark0 on August 26, 2012, 05:04 AM »
That's an interesting angle!  :)
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by Mark0 on August 25, 2012, 04:42 PM »
I recommend a look at this, from the notable pj of Groklaw:

Jury in Apple v. Samsung Goofed, Damages Reduced -- Uh Oh. What's Wrong With this Picture?

Come on. This is farce.

This has to be the best summary for the current situation!  ;D
143
Living Room / Re: Typing Speed Competition!
« Last post by Mark0 on August 13, 2012, 07:29 AM »
2 try. Way too much errors!   :-[

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General Software Discussion / Robust code - On Curiosity and its software
« Last post by Mark0 on August 13, 2012, 07:07 AM »
An interesting post linked on OS news:

JLOUIS Ramblings - Getting 2.5 Megalines of code to behave

I cannot help but speculate on how the software on the Curiosity rover has been constructed. We know that most of the code is written in C and that it comprises 2.5 Megalines of code, roughly[1]. One may wonder why it is possible to write such a complex system and have it work. This is the Erlang programmers view.
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Living Room / Re: Microsoft's New Surface Tablet Hybrid
« Last post by Mark0 on June 19, 2012, 03:33 PM »
The RT version does also make little sense to me, now, because the first Android smartphones with x86 CPUs already surfaced, and proved to be decent from a performance / battery life point of view. So what's the point of Windows on a different architecture, at this point?
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Living Room / Re: Microsoft's New Surface Tablet Hybrid
« Last post by Mark0 on June 19, 2012, 01:55 PM »
I was expecting some sort of silly / stupid me-too copycat thing, instead the Surface thing really surprised me.
The x86 version and the touch cover seems very interesting.
147
General Software Discussion / Re: Linus Torvalds on NVIDIA -- "F**k you!"
« Last post by Mark0 on June 17, 2012, 09:07 AM »
I find interesting the part where he explain a bit him being blunt:

http://www.youtube.c...r_detailpage#t=2111s
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General Software Discussion / Re: Linus Torvalds on NVIDIA -- "F**k you!"
« Last post by Mark0 on June 17, 2012, 07:36 AM »
 ;D  ;D  :Thmbsup:
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Developer's Corner / Re: Essays on Proper Storage of Site Passwords
« Last post by Mark0 on June 12, 2012, 05:36 PM »
Nice, thanks!
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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Last post by Mark0 on June 11, 2012, 04:47 AM »
Wow!
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