Okay, somebody just had to make this kind of fun out of Quentin Tarantino's epic movie. And, honestly, haven't we all secretly dreamt of paying it back to Bill for all the frustrating and wasted hours spent with a certain company's software.
See the movie poster at The Joy of Tech.
Someone (with too much leisure time, apparently) has created a Flash simulation of Mac OS 7.0. While of course not a complete Mac, the simulation at least gives a feel how a Mac and some of its applications felt circa 1990.
Reminds me of my first Mac, a Mac LC with a whopping 2 MB of RAM - which, btw, still works. What a long way it was to Panther on my shiny PowerBook G4...
While we're at it: a lot of anecdotes about the development of the original Mac and the people behind it can be found on folklore.org, a site created by Andy Hertzfeld, one of the fathers of the Macintosh.
The ACM 2003 A.M. Turing Award was presented to Dr. Alan Kay, for leading the team that invented Smalltalk (the programming language). The Turing Award is considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing". Previous winners of this award include Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard M. Adleman (2002), Frederick P. Brooks (1999), Niklaus Wirth (1984) and E.W. Dijkstra (1972).
Kay's work also laid the intellectual foundations for today's graphical user interfaces. Besides being known for the invention of Smalltalk, Alan Kay is also known for his dislike of a certain programming language. ("I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."). Personally I consider Smalltalk as one of the most elegant programming languages ever invented.
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Hey Hey Hey Hey! Apple Corps (interesting homepage), the Beatles's record label again fights a legal battle against Apple Computer, Inc. Seems that The Beatles are not too happy with the iTunes Music Store. Hm, maybe they should just acknowledge that the Revolution has already happened and just Let It Be. Or is the Money all that they want? Think for Yourself...
Read more on The Register.
James Gosling comments on the recent settlement between Sun and Microsoft.
One of my favorite bands, Rush, will come to Europe next September to play a few concerts as part of their 30th Anniversary Tour. The tour dates are listed on their website. Wow, I never thought that I would get a chance to see them live. Given that they have not toured Europe for more than a decade, this may well be the last chance for us European fans to see them live.
Happy Easter and happy egg-hunting to everyone reading this.