Comments by "tooltalk" (@tooltalk) on "National Geographic" channel.

  1. no you don't. there's nothing to do there after 10 PM.
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  2. theylied1776 : you sound just as confused.   Xerox Los Alamos? You mean PARC, Palo Alto Research Lab,? Xerox had their reason for giving way their tech and it wasn't just their "dinosaurs" management at fault. You have to remember that Xerox was really a behemoth in the 70's; in fact, so big that it drew the ire of the DOJ. Xerox, under the 1975 Consent Decree, agreed to cease some marketing practices and license all their patents to their direct competitors, such as Cannon. Further, software patents in those days weren't as common, as it is today. Apple gave their pre-IPO stocks to gain insight into PARC in late 1970's, but Apple already had a very important PARC-insider, Jef Raskin, an UI expert and the father of Mac, who had been quite involved with Xerox PARC from its founding. Raskin had already laid out his vision for affordable, GUI-based personal computing and started his Mac project at Apple when he organized the two PARC visits to demonstrate his vision to other Apple employees. And of course NatGeo wants us to believe Jobs saw and Apple invented (ahem) everything first. I wonder if these folks at NatGeo are affiliated with the USPTO's "The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs" exhibit.
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  3. NG,  #1) the system Jobs is looking at says "Xerox 8010 Star .."  The Star wasn't released until 1981, or about two years after Apple's visit. What Apple engineers and Jobs saw in the late 70's was the Xerox Alto. 2) Wozniak was never part of the two PARC visits.
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  4. @iceshard24 : eh? how do you know what I'm interested in? I don't watch TV, nor do I enjoy watching the CNN coverage of war / political porns. No, the fact that you listen to endless thoughtless dribble, propaganda from BBC, Stewart's Dailyshow or Democracy Now, NPR, doesn't make you look any smarter.
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  5. @TheHitchhikingHippie : jesus, get a grip.
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  6. bring your gun next time.  the 2nd amend rules.. ;)
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  7. That critter cam thing looks so awkward, big, clunky. This video reads like a poor defense for funding the project ($7k - $13k a pop?). With all the technologies we have thesedays, is this the best tool for gathering wild-life data? *duck*
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  8. crippletime : he was a super used-car salesman.
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  9. it's an old re-run.  This particular method doesn't look very sanitary. I've tried live octopus legs -- they have absolutely no flavor and feels like rubber.
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  10. MntGirl26: so how do we make the planet actually "warmer" so that these turtle can live?
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  11. wonder why RV sales aren't going up.
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  12. @DonnaSkipper : Botswana
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  13. Americans need to cut agriculture subsidies.
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  14. how about that cow? too big?
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  15. 1:22 has nothing to do with this video.
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  16. this is a repeat
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  17. so is the Nobel Committee going to rescind Al Gore's Nobel? (how about Obamamos?)
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  18. umm.. they are just putting it on the floor?
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  19. what? no starbucks at the summit?
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