Nolan Bushnell

StefanL, 22.08.04, 19:24

Nolan Bushnell, entrepeneur

1976: Nolan Bushnell hires Steve Jobs to create Breakout. Jobs joins with Steve Wozniak. They design the game in five days. Bushnell pays Jobs $5,000; Jobs pays $350 to Wozniak, and takes sole credit for Breakout.

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Lynn Once More

StefanL, 30.07.04, 21:23

Lynn Conway and Carver Mead

I have written about these 2 people before. Have read more new stuff about them lately. Today everybody takes cheap hardware for granted, availability and cheapness a byproduct of science and capitalism. But ...

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Burton Bloom

StefanL, 10.04.04, 10:20

Burton Bloom first described a method now commonly called Bloom Filters in a 1970 paper entitled "Space/time trade-offs in hash coding with allowable errors". In those days of limited memory, Bloom filters were prized primarily for their compactness; in fact, one of their earliest applications was in spell checkers. However, there are less obvious features of the algorithm that make...

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Daphne Koller

StefanL, 10.04.04, 00:21

Daphne Koller, and her research involve large amounts of uncertainty.

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Philip Donald Estridge

StefanL, 29.03.04, 01:21

Philip 'Don' Estridge

This man started to work for IBM in 1959. At the end of 1980, when VisiCalc rocketed Apple computers into the office, IBM decided to finally compete in the rapidly growing low-cost personal computer market. The company established what was then called the Entry Systems Division, located in Boca Raton, Florida, to develop the new system.

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Wesley Clark and Charles Molnar

StefanL, 23.03.04, 00:35

Charles Molnar, Wesley Clarc and their LINC

Builders of LINC. and lots other cool stuff. Just google or yahoo them. You will be entertained, amused and educated.

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Rebecca Thomas

StefanL, 01.11.02, 12:25

Technical writer and programmer We fell in love with this woman in 1985. She's quite older than we are. Her book "A User Guide to the UNIX OS" was our first Unix Book in 1985 or 6. It was 3 years old and in a sale box even then. Before that buy we had read about Unix only in IBM sponsored...

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Winners, slaves and looser coalitions

StefanL, 28.10.02, 09:06

    Are these guys slaves? All 3 were keynote speakers at this year's Borland developers' conference. All 3 are among the best computing engineers on this planet, imho. They work for Intel, MS and Sun respectively. Are they slaves of evil empires? Come on, give me a hint!    Are these guys a looser coalition? Are they saints? Will they pull...

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D'après ce que je vois
vous avez tout à fait raison, Mr. Tobi.
by MaryW (01.03.25, 08:34)
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La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú....
by tobi (28.02.25, 16:22)
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Haschimiten-Familie Vater:Husain ibn 'AliEmir von Mekka von 1908 - 1916König des Hedschas von 1916 - 1924 Sohn Faisal:Verhandlungsführer der "Araber" in Paris König des Irak von 1921....
by StefanL (19.01.25, 06:26)
Ich habe eh
einen Esseh über den Kulturpessimismus, der ja grundlegend mehr reaktionär als konservativ ist, in Arbeit. Wird aber noch dauern.
by StefanL (10.01.25, 23:50)
Jaaa!
Ich geb ja gerne zu, dass der Neid aus mir spricht. ;-)
by StefanL (10.01.25, 23:46)
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Aha soso ein Professor h.k. (honore kurza).
by tobi (10.01.25, 23:30)
I totally agree
mit der Meinung, dass das Hemisphärenmodell überholt ist. Die mediale Lust am Untergang hat eine rational kalkulierendes Element auf der einen Seite und massenpsychologische Element, dass....
by StefanL (10.01.25, 20:15)
Woher kommt diese Lust am Untergang?
Friedrich Sieburg kommentierte »die Tendenz der Medien, unentwegt den Weltuntergang durch einen Atomkrieg vorauszusagen als weinerliche, kaum zu ertragende Geschwätzigkeit. Sie sei auch deswegen absurd,....
by tobi (10.01.25, 19:18)
Read the books,
watched the series for a while. Got distracted then. Did NOT buy the T-Shirt. Interesting problem. Thanks! Slice, slice, very slice. Thank you for not killing....
by StefanL (06.01.25, 11:39)
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Slice, slice, very nice.
by tobi (05.01.25, 23:31)
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😻
by tobi (18.12.24, 12:27)
We could just barely
keep the censor's office and the press team of the president-elect from intervention but here are our apologies and our thanks for these valuable hints....
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The (correct) first name of Mr. Zelenskyj is the Ukrainian Володи́мир, not (of all things) the Russian Влади́мир 😿 Second name is Oleksandrovych. Ложка дьогтю у бочці....
by tobi (16.12.24, 19:15)
Du hast recht,
Universal-Genies brauchen wir echt keine mehr. Ich wollte eh nur sagen: Things are going to slide, slide in all directions. Won't be nothing, won't be nothing you....
by MaryW (31.10.24, 23:13)
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Hm. Ich glaub, da gibt es schon noch einige Kandidat*innen. Mir fällt spontan Lisz Hirn ein. Ich fürchte nur, die schaffen es nicht mehr, so....
by tobi (03.10.24, 19:21)
Das sind
wirklich die allerletzten, diese Streberschweine. Aber sonst auch.
by StefanL (18.09.24, 08:42)
Es gibt sogar
Verbrecher, die das ganze WE zusätzlich durcharbeiten, um Pegelkarten zu bauen. Das sind dann die allerletzten.
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Geändert
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by StefanL (21.02.22, 09:17)
There has been evidence
that the important and successful ideas in MSFT - like licensing the Unix source code in the 70ies and learning from it and licensing QDOS....
by StefanL (02.01.22, 11:18)
Now
I think I maybe know what you meant. It is the present we know best and the future we invent. And history is mostly used....
by StefanL (02.01.22, 09:51)
???
Hey, it's just a phrase wishing to convey that you're always smarter after the event than before it.
by StefanL (28.12.21, 07:35)
Addendum
Oracle is now mentioned in the English Wikipedia article on teletext and even has its own article here. Electra has one too.
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We have grossly erred
At least in point 5. We thought, people would have come to the conclusion that permanently listening to directive voices as an adult is so....
by MaryW (21.12.21, 07:42)
Did not want to spell the names out
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by StefanL (19.12.21, 08:45)
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with four letters it becomes easier though i am not sure with hafi… anyhoo, inms guessing acronyms or whatever this is. *it’s not my steckenpferd
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