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8-Year-Old Receives Patent 142

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @10:54AM from the young-inventor-society dept.

Knile writes "While not the youngest patent recipient ever (that would be a four year old in Texas), Bryce Gunderman has received a patent at age 8 for a space-saver that combines an outlet cover plate with a shelf. From the article: '"I thought how I was going to make a lot of money," Bryce said about what raced through his brain when he received the patent.'"

Comment Re:Just got it (Score 1) 182

by rbrunner on Wednesday July 13, 2005 @03:59PM (#13057415) Attached to: Apple Releases OS X 10.4.2 Update

Most of the standard widgets are less than 10M on my system:

Weather: 11.48M
Stocks:11.12M
Translation: 9.48M
Phone Book: 8.93M
Address Book: 8.67M
Calendar: 7.73M
Stickies: 7.09M
Calculator: 6.93M

Maybe the memory usage has decreased in 10.4.2, but none of these seem out of line with what a regular desktop application would use. Some of these I find useful as Dashboard widgets (Weather, for instance), other functions I prefer to use with normal apps (Address Book, Calculator), and others I have no use for at all (Translation). But I really don't see how the memory usage is extreme, compared to alternatives (desktop apps or additional browser windows)

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