I read the associated article. It's a puzzle and a clever one at that. On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > What a great Doodle. I wonder if it's an actual Turing machine or just a > collection of animations. The Apple with a bite out as a tribute to Turing > is a wild idea. It works, intended or not. > > > On Saturday, June 23, 2012, Bob W wrote: >> >> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> > Godfrey DiGiorgi >> > >> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> Y'all are arguing about who did the best job of stealing ideas from >> > Xerox. >> > > >> > > It's worth reading the Steve Jobs bio just to get the straight goods >> > > on that somewhat apocryphal story. Xerox were being really stupid >> > with >> > > that technology and basically sold it to Apple for pennies on the >> > > dollar. >> > >> > Yup. SJ weaseled it out of Xerox legitimately, Microsoft stole the >> > ideas from Apple. >> >> It's the hundredth anniversary of Turing's birth today. Everybody stole >> everything from him. >> >> Ironically he killed himself by eating a cyanide-laced apple after being >> prosecuted and persecuted for being gay and forced to take drugs which >> made >> him grow breasts. I wonder if Jobs had that in mind when he chose the >> symbol >> of a rainbow-striped apple with a bite taken out. >> >> Google has a nice doodle today marking the centenary. Thanks to them for >> helping to fund Bletchley Park. >> >> B >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins
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