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Comment The process was patented... (Score 4, Insightful) 105

by lurvdrum on Thursday September 13, 2012 @09:44AM (#41322981) Attached to: World's First Color Moving Pictures Discovered

if this had been in 2012, he wouldn't have patented a film process but instead followed Apple (and others) by patenting "The idea of colour moving pictures displayed to an audience" and his descendents would now be suing Hollywood for 15 gazillion dollars.

Comment Location is all (Score 1) 72

by lurvdrum on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @03:30PM (#36242770) Attached to: Happy Towel Day!

I admit to not actually carrying my towel all day but I did at least make sure I knew where it was all the time.

Submission + - Dell puts XP back in play

Submitted by illeism on Friday April 20, 2007 @09:34AM

illeism writes: Dell has begun putting XP back on new machines.

Dell changed the policy in response to pleas posted on its Ideastorm website which invites customers to post suggestions about how the PC maker can meet their needs. The suggestion saying "Don't eliminate XP just yet" got almost 11,000 votes. In response Dell said it would offer the operating system on four models of Inspiron notebooks and two Dimension desktop PCs.
However, Microsoft will always pipe up on things like this saying:

Dell was responding to a "small minority" of customers who had a very "specific" request.

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