From: juan <juan....@gmail.com> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 17:49:02 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> There's another set of possibilities. Usually, a person has 10 >> fingers. They can presumably be scanned in two different axes (or >> more), and in two different directions, each. With some additional >> software,
> People could do lots of different things...if they owned their > phones. But the phones are owned by apple. The phone users are > owned by apple too, and by the US government. Not MY phone, which is an Android. I have detested Apple ever since the very early 1980s, when they had a nasty legal habit of suing anybody who tried to make an add-on card for the Apple II computer. (Which didn't have a SHIFT key, which is why for a long time you could tell a person on the BBS's had an Apple BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS TYPED IN ALL CAPS!!!). Who forgets to add a shift key? The one really great thing Apple ever did was to choose the Motorola 68000 microprocessor for their Macintosh computer, which had a 24-bit linear memory address space (later increased to 32 bits), unlike the foolish 80X86 series, which had a botch called "segmentation". (Although, I have long maintained that there would be nothing wrong with segmentation, as long as the individual segments could be made as large as any program and/or data that you could ever want to use. The 8086/88 only allowed segments 64Kbytes in length. Sure, later iterations allowed larger segment sizes, but by that point the limitation had been locked into software! A segment size of 4 gigabytes (2**32) would have been just great. Whatever happened to the R4000??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R4000 Jim Bell
