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Internet Software Patents

http://philip.greenspun.com/business/internet-software-patents

were only 50 or 100 computers on the Internet. Annotated Timeline of Internet and e-commerce early 1960s: packet-switched computer networking developed 1962: Licklider proposes "I

Blog: The Death of Scientism

http://indigocurnick.xyz/blog/2024-03-05/the-death-of-scientism

in the last century. Computers and computer science came to almost totally dominate the economy. The average lives of average people have never been so radically transformed as si
What has peer review done to us?

the djb way: the djb why?

http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/djbwhy.html

Soekris single board computers, to rack-mounted blade servers and the "big-iron" mainframes of research and industry. No matter what package it comes in, these Unix and "Unix-like
the djb why

Homepage - Raymii.org

http://raymii.org/s/

that makes the Mio bike computers. This Navman Bike 1000 is a rebadged Mio Cyclo 200 . It's from 2015 and as you might have guessed, no more map updates. This article shows ho

Lena @ Things Of Interest

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

one can refer to how computers boot, and how applications start, opting to perform a large amount of completely useless calculations instead of just loading a ready to run memory
A note from the author You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. This collection also includes a sequel story, titled &q

Loper OS » Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284

with such things on our computers is a broken one: see the Seventh Law. Obfuscated code destroys my ability to usefully interrogate the machine about its activity at all times, an

Don's Maps - Palaeolithic / Paleolithic European, Russian, Ukrainian and Australian Archaeology / Archeology

https://www.donsmaps.com/

I got much better computers and software over the years, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for example, and my maps became colourised and had more detail. I did a lot of maps of the
Resources for the study of Palaeolithic European, Russian, Ukrainian and Australian Archaeology

The FreeType Project

http://freetype.org/

system for laptop computers; ReactOS , a free open source operating system based on the best design principles found in the Windows NT architecture; Ghostscript , a PostScrip
The FreeType Project: a free, high-quality and portable Font engine

Balisage 2018 - Participant Bios

https://www.balisage.net/2018/Bios.html

of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the editorial board of Markup languages: theory and practice , and the Text Encoding Initiative Council. Much of his electroni

The Biointelligence Explosion as conceived by ChatGPT

https://www.biointelligence-explosion.com/chatgpt/

DP] Classical computers cannot explore the nature, varieties, causal-functional efficacy and phenomenal binding of consciousness. Why does superintelligence.com argue that full-sp

IBM SAGE

https://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-ibm-sage.html

by people and not computers... To aid that idea SAC even instituted the "failSafe"; program. What made it automatic was the program flow of the SAGE computer.... In simple terms t

Nintendo 64 Architecture | A Practical Analysis

https://classic.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nintendo-64/

for Windows-based computers as well [41] . Furthermore, there were third-party tools such as custom cartridges housing a long ribbon cable that connected to the workstation. These
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally


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