Newton (Was: Re: About Piracy but not about that guy...)

2005-06-02 Thread Dom
Jeffrey Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use to do the old paper passing battleship game in long boring meetings with the newton's ir messaging with the other newton toting guy in the company! everyone thought we were just taking good notes on a cool new machine! at least none of us yelled

Re: About Piracy but not about the guy...

2005-06-02 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Wed, 01 Jun 2005 J. Landman Gay wrote: He likes to download free stuff, and he downloaded a trial of Revolution after seeing it mentioned somewhere. Ben, here are plenty free downloable software: http://www.theopencd.org/ I hope to find the time to learn Blender, someday. We can

Re: About Piracy but not about that guy...

2005-06-02 Thread Alex Tweedly
Andre Garzia wrote: On the subject of piracy. Does anyone here remembers the Apple Newton? Each newton had a unique ID that could not be spoofed, so the combination of unique ID and the users own data was a good way to generate serials, for example to register an app you'd open a webpage and

Re: About Piracy but not about that guy...

2005-06-02 Thread SimPLsol
Alex, What if the computer ID was contained on a removable chip (like the GSM chips in a cell phone)? Then, if the computer broke, or you upgraded to a new computer, you would just move the chip. I know, what if the chip failed? Since it would be just a single, simple chip, failure would be

Re: About Piracy but not about that guy...

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Wieder
Alex- Thursday, June 2, 2005, 6:49:31 AM, you wrote: AT I think that's a very user-unfriendly form of registration; once I've but that's the way Microsoft handles client licenses... oh, right, I guess that's what you were saying... g -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About Piracy but not about the guy...

2005-06-02 Thread Judy Perry
Hey, if you can figure it out, can you clue me in? I spent about 15 very frustrated minutes with it and couldn't figure out what to do with it! Judy On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Ben, here are plenty free downloable software: http://www.theopencd.org/ I hope to find the time

Re: About Piracy but not about that guy...

2005-06-02 Thread Alex Tweedly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex, What if the computer ID was contained on a removable chip (like the GSM chips in a cell phone)? Then, if the computer broke, or you upgraded to a new computer, you would just move the chip. That would be much better. I know, what if the chip failed? Since

RE: About Piracy but not about the guy...

2005-06-02 Thread MisterX
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 19:54 To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: About Piracy but not about the guy... Hey, if you can figure it out, can you clue me in? I spent about 15 very frustrated minutes with it and couldn't figure out what to do with it! Judy On Thu, 2 Jun 2005

Re: About Piracy but not about the guy...

2005-06-02 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 2, 2005, at 4:11 PM, MisterX wrote: Any other excellent 3D packages after Alejandro's Rev3D ? ;)) Lightwave 8.3? I learned Blender. It is great for free, but pales against the polish and features of the commercial tools. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net

RE: About Piracy but not about the guy...

2005-06-02 Thread Judy Perry
Yeah, possibly, or maybe I didn't. My only recollections are along the lines of 'what the ?' Judy On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, MisterX wrote: Judy, Obviously you didn't read the documentation's explanation regarding that. Awesome GUI... ___

Re: About Piracy but not about that guy...

2005-06-01 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 1, 2005, at 11:11 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: the newton is/was the most amazing machine I ever used... Gotta pop in to agree with Andre. Hand held devices are just beginning to catch up with where the Newton was many years ago. Imagine if the Newton were still in development. My Palm

Re: About Piracy but not about that guy...

2005-06-01 Thread Judy Perry
Funny you should mention the Newton. Foster-child #1 just picked it up and informed me that it needs new batteries (isn't running off AAs just about the coolest thing ever?) Even today, should I take it with me to the post office or to class where there are 'seasoned' CS majors who know

Re: About Piracy but not about that guy...

2005-06-01 Thread Jeffrey Reynolds
ahh my old newton, how i still love it. it sits on the desk (not really used much except to turn on once and a while), but i's one of the clear developer ones that is just too kwel for words... Good thought taking it to show some newbie cs majors! I'll have to show my nephew starting grad