timthorn
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
It's seriously underselling ICL to call it a consulting company, though by the time of the Fujitsu acquisition that might be accurate.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes, though I think it's being positioned as a commuter service for the people of Bewdley to get to Birmingham and back rather than for visitors to get to Bewdley.
Comment · 2 months ago
It's a rhetorical device to emphasise the reason for cancellation, not a revision.
Comment · 2 months ago
Richard Walker tried to become a Conservative MP, but when no constituency party selected him as their candidate defected to Labour, who put him in the House of Lords.
Comment · 2 months ago
> I probably missed a lot of them
Psion is the big one - the Organiser, Series 3 and Series 5 in particular. The latter was the genesis of Symbian, which Motorola was also a partner in.
Comment · 3 months ago
Paul Fellows absolutely claims that. From https://astrospeakers.org/provider/paul-fellows :
> He worked on the first generation of home computers and lead the design of the RiscOS operating system for the ARM processor, including inventing the apps and icon bar user interface that has since spread to phones and computers across the world
Comment · 3 months ago
Well, a reminder of the origin story of RiscOS: https://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Acorn/fellows.php
Paul Fellows later went on to be the CTO of AlertMe, which became the basis of British Gas' Hive service, and then Lowes' Iris product line.
Comment · 5 months ago
Dot matrix printers + fanfold paper
Comment · 5 months ago
> Connections, Cosmos, Civilization, The Ascent of Man and Attenborough's Life on Earth
Civilization and The Ascent of Man were both commissioned by Attenborough - he had a major impact on the broadcast landscape well beyond natural history.
Comment · 6 months ago
It's the same Greek root as Kubernetes
Comment · 6 months ago
The article is a great read. Though it talks about OBEX, and how Bluetooth wiped out IrDA, but not that Bluetooth took OBEX straight out of the IrDA stack.
Not IRDA, but there was also IRTalk built into some of the Power Book series, allowing native AppleTalk to a diffuse IR access point. I really wanted to try that out but never had the opportunity.
The UK rates severe space weather as one of the most significant, most likely events on the National Risk Register: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a50d66b1228e...