You mean like Konami v. Roxor, the lawsuit over the Dance Dance Revolution patent that led to a claim construction in Konami's favor?

Indeed. It's more important to get high quality nutrients than to try to demonize one or the other.

Don't think of it as 1920x1080. Think of it as twice 960x1080, with one nearly square window on each half of the monitor.

You won't see Google Play Store (lawfuly) on any square tablet. Google licenses the Google Apps only to hardware makers who agree to make all their Android devices meet the Android CDD. And the Android CDD specifies a display aspect ratio of at least 6:5.

See, that's the problem you get into with people complaining you're raising the bar. The mouse maze was one the earliest demonstrations of AI.

Now you'll say, "that's not what I meant!", and you will be right, but then people will complain that you're moving the goal posts.

1280x1024 to 1920x1080 is still an upgrade, and your window manager should let you divide it into two 960x1080 areas so that you can refer to docs while writing code or whatever.

it can just be recovered from atmosphere

Most of it escapes into space. It's gone. You can make some more by fusing hydrogen atoms.

Artificial bars. The requirement is simple, have a computer that thinks like a human.

You don't even know what algorithm the human brain uses. They didn't in the 80s, either. Figure that out before you complain about bars being moved.

Nice flowchart. I like how diagrams the structure clearly. With such clean diagrams, I understand why it got accepted.

Sounds like it. Apple and 5 publishers tried to raise the price of new "e-books from the $9.99 price that Amazon had made standard".

So why does Amazon get to set the price, and not Apple or the publishers?

This is so simple I'm amazed you got voted up. Fundamental market mechanics is that sellers try to raise the price, buyers try to lower the price. Everything from someone haggling over an item at a flea market to a multi-billion dollar corporate buyout operates this way. Both buyer and seller are acting in their own interests. However, the counterbalance to sellers having the power to raise the price is that if they raise it too much, buyers can go to a different seller to get the same or similar item. That natural balance between sellers trying to get as high a price as they can without driving buyers to competitors is what sets the market price.

Apple and the publishers were sellers who tried to raise the price. If they'd arrived at that price individually, then there's no problem. But they colluded to set it at that price, which is absolutely illegal since it breaks this fundamental market mechanic.

Amazon was a seller who tried to lower the price. That's not a problem since it benefits the buyer. It's just like a store deciding to hold a sale. (There's an anti-trust argument that Amazon shouldn't be selling ebooks at a loss, using profits from other markets to undercut competitors in the ebook market. But that wasn't the focus of this particular case, and its disingenuous to try to argue Apple and the publishers aren't guilty because of this. Both can be illegal. If Amazon's ebook pricing is driving competitors to bankruptcy, then that's a separate issue that needs to be decided in a separate case.)

Hardware from the 80s is a different kind of hardware. The designers had little to work with, and as a result came up with exciting and interesting designs. Working with their hardware is, in a way, working with them, understanding the puzzles they had and how they solved them.

Plus the smell is something you don't forget. Mmmmmmm.

It seems like the hard part would be getting Linux to run on such a small machine. That's what impresses me the most, that you managed to do it.

Recently I was looking for some assembly language info for the original Altair (the first microcomputer), and I came across this. It was a different kind of assembly than I was expecting, it looks like some kind of Ikea manual but much worse. Apparently it cost twice as much to get it assembled, instead of merely a box of parts.

Then after you were done, you had 256 bytes of RAM, and no keyboard.

In any case, if you look at that, it will give you the imagination needed for a tutorial for something like this.

That's why many people aren't working on it.

But for people who do enjoy that kind of thing, it sure beats watching TV or hanging out at a bar.