Quoting Bob W <p...@web-options.com>:
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
Godfrey DiGiorgi
Yup. SJ weaseled it out of Xerox legitimately, Microsoft stole the
ideas from Apple.
It's the hundredth anniversary of Turing's birth today. Everybody stole
everything from him.
Ironically he killed himself by eating a cyanide-laced apple after being
prosecuted and persecuted for being gay and forced to take drugs which made
him grow breasts. I wonder if Jobs had that in mind when he chose the symbol
of a rainbow-striped apple with a bite taken out.
Google has a nice doodle today marking the centenary. Thanks to them for
helping to fund Bletchley Park.
I hadn't realised the significance of the Google Doodle (Goodle?)...
By coincidence SBS TV here broadcast 'Codebreaker' just a couple of
weeks ago to mark the 58th anniversary of his suicide. It's a great
insight into Turing's life. I'm not sure if the film has had much of
a distribution outside of the UK (and now Australia) but it's well
worth seeing if it turns up in other locations.
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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