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I worked with IBM a little bit in about 1990 and they were preoccupied with patents. It's just a basis for bullying/extortion...

In the late 1980s, working for a university, I wrote some terminal graphics routines for the IBM PC which among other things drew arcs...

Time to patent addition! A goldmine!

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I have some solemn news to report. Many in the community had been wondering where the prolific @Vanadium 50 has been. V50 hasn't posted...

I deeply respect people who are engaged in self-education. Nevertheless the problem of self-education is as follows. A person reads...

Sorry to laugh, but that sounds very much like one of the very few songs by the Grateful Dead that I like. (Mainly because it seemed...

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Theoretical physicist C.N. Yang died at the age of 103 years on October 18, 2025. He is the Yang in Yang-Mills theory, which he and his...

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Specifically for US borders: You could travel between US <==> Mexico or US <==> Canada with just a drivers license (no passport...

Prior to then I made a few trips to Canada ( from the US) with nothing more than a driver's license. (and the the 70's even without...

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