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TRS-80 software was just as important as TRS-80 hardware, and at first, it had a wider selection than any other microcomputer. Conventional wisdom has long held that Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston’s VisiCalc spreadsheet for the Apple II was the first killer app–a program so useful that people bought a computer to run it. But even before Apple got VisiCalc, the TRS-80 had the Electric Pencil, the first microcomputer word processor. At the very least, it was a proto-killer app. Please Don’t Call It Trash-80.
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The Electric Pencil ran on CP/M, not just TRS-80's. I created the Care & Feeding manual for an IBM S/370 application I had developed using it on a Processor Technology SOL-20.
After about a month of scratching around on paper and creating nothing worthwhile, the Electric Pencil word processor let me crank one out in a few days since I had the ability to duplicate or at least move text around after writing it.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Over the last 12 to 18 months, one buzzword at Microsoft has come to encapsulate a bold redesign of the look of its most high-profile products: Metro. First used to describe the new tile- and typography-heavy user interface for Windows Phone, its smartphone operating system, the Metro look has popped up on the Xbox, Windows 8 and even in the layout of PowerPoint slides used by Microsoft executives. Now Microsoft is banishing the Metro name from its products. Code name: "You Shouldn't Have Blown Off That Meeting With Legal"
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Starting at the end of August, McAfee will be making it a little safer to share your photos on the social network. The security company is launching a product called Social Protection, which lets you control who can see your photos on the site and prevents people from downloading those pictures to view elsewhere.
There's something wrong with my face...
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Mika Wendelius wrote: and prevents people from downloading those pictures to view elsewhere.
Interesting. I wonder how they're going to do that.
/ravi
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Hardware overlays maybe? That doesn't even really stop you from taking a screenshot, if you really want to, but at least it makes it slightly harder than usual.
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I have McAfee on my company PC and I can confirm that it can stop you copying photos. In fact, it can stop you doing anything at all, except for basking in the heat generated by the CPU as it hogs your machine for hours and hours.
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McAfee's AV is not exactly gold standard material so anything they do to photos will hardly place them on top of the pile either. I think the problems will become prominent when a lot of people start to use it. And who's to say they won't benefit from it by routing your photos to another agency that has some other purpose in mind? When I see McAfee's name mentioned anywhere it's seldom for good. I don't trust or respect their products. I'll pass thanks. 
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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If it is displayed on your screen you can copy it....
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Metro was a name in transit. Not too many people were onboard with it. So it went off-track and got derailed.
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Windows Blocks sounds like an appropriate name I think. Tetris is taken after all.
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How about 'Rectangle', I know Apple patented 'Rectangle' too, so it's sensitive as well, but might a good name!
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Yes, but it's not just one rectangle. How about Windows Fragmented?
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That is not patented, that is good too!
But there is a risk, some day some cheeky satirist might launch the movement:
Windows Defragmented! 
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Ok, lets settle down with Metrangle. 
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Metrangle? Creative! I like it! :P
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Thanks, let me copyright it then
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Damn, you beat me to it!
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Windows Lego? Windows Fisher Price?
At least artificial intelligence already is superior to natural stupidity
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Windows Tonka? My first Windows?
Couldn't have happened to a nicer company - me thinks someone deliberately waited until it was RTM, when the impact would be greatest.
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Windows Fisher Price has been taken by Windows XP ages ago.
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Let's hope it doesn't end in a legal battle between windows XP and windows 8
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Windows Tiles.
"As beings of finite lifespan, our contributions to the sum of human knowledge is one of the greatest endeavors we can undertake and one of the defining characteristics of humanity itself"
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Nice!  ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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