Archive for 4th February 2010
Kicking Off the Computer Age 4 Feb 2010
The BBC has a couple of interesting articles about the start of the computer age in the UK. The first is on the Small Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM, more commonly known as Baby), developed at Manchester University and the world’s first programmable computer. The second covers the Edsac computer developed in Cambridge with funding from [...]
A fight over freedom at Apple’s core 4 Feb 2010
I argued in comments in a post on another site recently that by allowing websites that use Flash to only work as Apps via their store we’re removing one proprietary format and replacing it with not only a proprietary format, but an unscrupulous gatekeeper as well.