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August 29, 2011 at 1:53 PM #727010August 29, 2011 at 2:15 PM #725817
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Participant[quote=svelte]When the Apple Heads start preaching to me about how Microsoft stole the GUI for Windows from Apple, I always remind them that Apple stole it from Xerox PARC. They usually get quiet after that.[/quote]
They never mention Doug Engelbart’s work at SRI, the windowed display and the mouse?
August 29, 2011 at 2:15 PM #725904Participant[quote=svelte]When the Apple Heads start preaching to me about how Microsoft stole the GUI for Windows from Apple, I always remind them that Apple stole it from Xerox PARC. They usually get quiet after that.[/quote]
They never mention Doug Engelbart’s work at SRI, the windowed display and the mouse?
August 29, 2011 at 2:15 PM #726504Participant[quote=svelte]When the Apple Heads start preaching to me about how Microsoft stole the GUI for Windows from Apple, I always remind them that Apple stole it from Xerox PARC. They usually get quiet after that.[/quote]
They never mention Doug Engelbart’s work at SRI, the windowed display and the mouse?
August 29, 2011 at 2:15 PM #726660Participant[quote=svelte]When the Apple Heads start preaching to me about how Microsoft stole the GUI for Windows from Apple, I always remind them that Apple stole it from Xerox PARC. They usually get quiet after that.[/quote]
They never mention Doug Engelbart’s work at SRI, the windowed display and the mouse?
August 29, 2011 at 2:15 PM #727029Participant[quote=svelte]When the Apple Heads start preaching to me about how Microsoft stole the GUI for Windows from Apple, I always remind them that Apple stole it from Xerox PARC. They usually get quiet after that.[/quote]
They never mention Doug Engelbart’s work at SRI, the windowed display and the mouse?
August 29, 2011 at 2:47 PM #725842Allan from Fallbrook
Participant[quote=captcha][quote=svelte]When the Apple Heads start preaching to me about how Microsoft stole the GUI for Windows from Apple, I always remind them that Apple stole it from Xerox PARC. They usually get quiet after that.[/quote]
They never mention Doug Engelbart’s work at SRI, the windowed display and the mouse?[/quote]
Captcha: Good call! Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo is a great example, along with the ARC sister program, of the huge impact of DARPA funding programs on R&D, including ARPANET (you know, the thing that Al Gore invented).
August 29, 2011 at 2:47 PM #725929Participant[quote=captcha][quote=svelte]When the Apple Heads start preaching to me about how Microsoft stole the GUI for Windows from Apple, I always remind them that Apple stole it from Xerox PARC. They usually get quiet after that.[/quote]
They never mention Doug Engelbart’s work at SRI, the windowed display and the mouse?[/quote]
Captcha: Good call! Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo is a great example, along with the ARC sister program, of the huge impact of DARPA funding programs on R&D, including ARPANET (you know, the thing that Al Gore invented).
August 29, 2011 at 2:47 PM #726528Participant[quote=captcha][quote=svelte]When the Apple Heads start preaching to me about how Microsoft stole the GUI for Windows from Apple, I always remind them that Apple stole it from Xerox PARC. They usually get quiet after that.[/quote]
They never mention Doug Engelbart’s work at SRI, the windowed display and the mouse?[/quote]
Captcha: Good call! Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo is a great example, along with the ARC sister program, of the huge impact of DARPA funding programs on R&D, including ARPANET (you know, the thing that Al Gore invented).
August 29, 2011 at 2:47 PM #726685Participant[quote=captcha][quote=svelte]When the Apple Heads start preaching to me about how Microsoft stole the GUI for Windows from Apple, I always remind them that Apple stole it from Xerox PARC. They usually get quiet after that.[/quote]
They never mention Doug Engelbart’s work at SRI, the windowed display and the mouse?[/quote]
Captcha: Good call! Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo is a great example, along with the ARC sister program, of the huge impact of DARPA funding programs on R&D, including ARPANET (you know, the thing that Al Gore invented).
August 29, 2011 at 2:47 PM #727054Participant[quote=captcha][quote=svelte]When the Apple Heads start preaching to me about how Microsoft stole the GUI for Windows from Apple, I always remind them that Apple stole it from Xerox PARC. They usually get quiet after that.[/quote]
They never mention Doug Engelbart’s work at SRI, the windowed display and the mouse?[/quote]
Captcha: Good call! Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo is a great example, along with the ARC sister program, of the huge impact of DARPA funding programs on R&D, including ARPANET (you know, the thing that Al Gore invented).
September 21, 2011 at 9:51 PM #729609briansd1
Guest[quote=afx114]What other CEO in the history of the universe has taken their company from near bankruptcy to being the most valuable company in the world in less than a decade? Whether you love or hate Apple and their products, there is no denying the absurdity and amazingness of that accomplishment. Or maybe that’s just Steve deploying his reality distortion field on me yet again.[/quote]
Maybe Al Gore helped.
I guess the new iPhone is coming out in October according to Al Gore who’s been on Apple’s board since 2003.
Look at Al Gore’s computer setup. He is computer savvy!
http://iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=17017http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/board.asp?ticker=AAPL:US
October 6, 2011 at 8:59 AM #730156GuestLooking back at history, I believe that Sony made a big mistake when it acquired movie and music content.
They stopped innovating on the tech side because they wanted to tie tech and content together for more revenue. But they could never make it work.
The iPhone is good in America and countries were credit card used is prevalent. You need iTunes and a credit card to use the iPhone, or you need computer savvy.
With Android, in 5 minutes, you can drag and drop a whole library of songs and music onto the device without anything resembing iTunes. That will help Android gain market share in developing countries where phone hardware is sold separate from cell phone service, by independent stores.
With Android, I could to a phone bazaar in Thailand or India, pay $3 and get a whole library of content dropped onto the device — very convenient for new users. Not as easy with iPhone.
October 23, 2011 at 9:29 PM #731209an
ParticipantInteresting article on when Bill Gates and Steve Jobs first started out: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-walter-isaacson/?iid=Lead. Here’s a very interesting excerpt:
[quote=quote]They were right to worry. Gates believed that graphical interfaces were the future and that Microsoft (MSFT) had just as much right as Apple (AAPL) did to pursue the desktop metaphor idea that had, after all, had been originally developed at Xerox PARC (XRX), not at Apple. As he freely admitted later, “We sort of say, ‘hey, we believe in graphics interfaces, we saw the Xerox Alto, too’.”
In their original deal, Jobs had convinced Gates to agree that Microsoft would not create graphical software for anyone other than Apple until a year after the Macintosh shipped in January 1983. Unfortunately for Apple, it did not provide for the possibility that the Macintosh launch would be delayed for a year. So Gates was within his rights when he revealed, in November 1983, that Microsoft planned to develop a new operating system for IBM PCs — featuring a graphical interface with windows, icons, and a mouse for point-and-click navigation — called Windows.[/quote] So, not only did Apple not invented GUI (which I knew), but they didn’t create all of their first GUI (Microsoft created portion of it for them, this I didn’t know).October 24, 2011 at 7:55 PM #731251
CoronitaParticipantSlightly off topic. But my friend told me an off humor joke today that I thought I’d share. Don’t shoot the messenger..
At one point, America’s future was pretty positive.
10 years ago, we had (Steve) Jobs, (Johnny) Cash, and (Bob) Hope…
Today, we’re our future is much bleaker….
We no longer have Jobs, we don’t have Cash, and we have lost our last Hope. All we’re left with is a very very large Bill.
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