Comment Re:Xerox Star (Score 1) 654
1968 - Alan Kay - the Dynabook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
Comment arms too long? (Score 1) 191
Why are they getting the phone that close to their brain? I can't see the keys to type when I hold the phone there. And I can't read the responses either! Someone doesn't know how to use their phone right.
Submission + - London Stock Exchange tackles closing auction syst (computerworlduk.com)
DMandPenfold writes: The London Stock Exchange has taken steps to resolve a system problem that occurred at 4.30pm yesterday (Tuesday), which saw a delay to the start of the closing auction and knocked out automatic trades during a 42 second period.
The problem occurred a day after the high profile launch of its new matching engine on the main equities market, based on the SUSE Linux system from Novell.
Sources close to the exchange today told Computerworld UK that the problem yesterday involved a system linked to the matching engine....
The problem occurred a day after the high profile launch of its new matching engine on the main equities market, based on the SUSE Linux system from Novell.
Sources close to the exchange today told Computerworld UK that the problem yesterday involved a system linked to the matching engine....
Comment Re:Nothing to see...just the smoke (Score 1) 615
Greek fire [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire]. Quite the rage a few years ago in the Byzantine navy. Can't find it anywhere today.
Damascus steel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel] is, almost, another example but diligent research by a second source has made it available once again.
Comment Re:I'm actually OK with granting MS this patent (Score 1) 150
Shades of "clippy". By all means lock this away and bury it. We can trust MS to that at least.
Comment Re:No Chance. (Score 1) 413
No. It was, in the words of Tom Lehrer, "good old American know how. Supplied by good old Americans like Wernher Von Bruan".
Bing Search Tainted By Pro-Microsoft Results 582
bdcny7927 writes "Just as Bing is gaining popularity, some disturbingly pro-Microsoft and anti-Apple search results are rearing their ugly heads. Case in point: a search on Bing for the phrase, 'Why is Windows so expensive?' returned this as the top link: 'Why are Macs so expensive.' That's right. You're not hallucinating."
Comment Re:Learning from prior mistakes (Score 1) 725
Clearly we can depend on the British software community to make the right technical choices
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