Whoever can get their recordable drives into a general market computer will...well...win.
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The company has just launched a general election computer game that gives the people the chance to show party politicians how it should be done.
Therefore, any patent that claims a method of solving a problem by programming a general-purpose computer is, like the patent the high court struck down 40 years ago, effectively a patent on a mathematical algorithm.
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It involved moving mountains and eradicating disease and inventing and constructing by far the hugest locks and lock gates ever conceived at the time and even a 1914 General Electric computer system to run it all.
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On top of that, the description of the Apple TV as the "next-generation Mac Mini" strikes us as a little odd, since the Mini was never sold as a media extender (even though you can use it that way) and the Apple TV was never sold as a general-purpose computer (even though you can use it that way).
One fundamental flaw, he said, is the relative anonymity provided by the Internet's system of IP addresses, which only identify a user's general location, not a specific computer.
Unlike regular degree programs, which provide a macro education on a general topic (say, Computer Science), badges certify micro-based competency in a very specific skill (say, JavaScript).
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By comparison, the Duke device represents the "first cut" at making gigapixel cameras for general use, said Shree Nayar, a computer-vision researcher at Columbia University in New York, who has seen the camera at work but wasn't involved in the project.
The latest incident, which came to light today, was exposed when British financial services giant HSBC Holdings (nyse: HBC - news - people ) began notifying customers who use a popular General Motors-branded MasterCard that their personal information may have been exposed due to a breach in the computer systems of an unnamed national retailer.
Unfortunately for most health insurance companies other than Aetna, their behavior is reminiscent of DEC, Data General, Wang and a host of once-successful computer makers that are in the dustbin of history.
The general election game plays out the polling battle on a computer controlled board that is part-Monopoly, part-Trivial Pursuit.
"We think it's a complete computer on a chip, " says Mike Rayfield, general manager of Nvidia's mobile business.
There were myriad breakfast talks between Ballmer and Kroes at the EU headquarters in Brussels to discuss general antitrust issues, and in which Kroes informed Ballmer that she had appointed a British computer scientist to make sure company was complying with the order to publish "interoperability" documentation.
Finally, the letter encourages Freeh to utilize the expertise of the General Accounting Office -- a congressional agency -- as it decides how to upgrade its computer system.
They would rather rely on a general-purpose and, from a copyright holder's point of view, highly untrustworthy device: the personal computer.
"The GD300 is a game-changing computer that will save lives, " said Mike DiBiase, vice president of Computing Technologies for General Dynamics C4 Systems.
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