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Similar reaction here. I was an intern there for a couple summers in the late 90s. At the time it was full of life and activity - all the hallmarks of a successful corporation. Never imagined seeing it in this state.
As a French, the company was vastly different to what I was used to. But not only that: when travelling to Schaumburg I was staying in the Embassy Suites on the other side of the road and I remember, jetlagged, waiting for 6 am for the breakfast to be served. There was also a big mall a bit south (I forgot the name) , very much different from the ones we had at home (staring with the fact that you drove around the ma…
Yep: The western suburbs are cheesy. Think mullets, Camaros, etc.
I love the tone of this, it’s like the musings of an explorer who discovered a jungle city abandoned by a mysterious civilization. “there were old wall slogans inside that must have been added to motivate and inspire the employees” … “ the tall building had several brick structures on the lower main level. He suspected that those structures probably had plants and ferns in them so that important business clients and…
Archaeologists have found inscriptions referring to the cult of "Six Sigma", which is hypothesized to be a primitive form of ritual statistical magic.
I recall when IBM left Boca Raton, Florida (where the PC was invented) in the mid-90s. About a year after they left, a few friends and I roamed the abandoned IBM facility [1] and it was odd seeing empty computer rooms sans the raised floors. Some of the resulting pits were six feet deep (2m). Crazy. [1] https://goo.gl/maps/CKrEbTkRDwWQNc2d8 Yes, it's a huge hexagon shaped building.
This is over by Florida Atlantic University, originally built to be a lot harder to get into than most well-known institutions at the time. Didn't offer much undergraduate, just upper level only for top transfer students. Things have changed, the campus plus the airport were a former airbase carved out of the wilderness and used during the Cuban Missle Crisis. Boca was a small resort town on the coast and you had to…
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Archaeologists have found inscriptions referring to the cult of "Six Sigma", which is hypothesized to be a primitive form of ritual statistical magic.
Skimming your comment I read “ritual sadistic magic”. Funny how the mind wanders
Disclosure: I have worked in construction.
I dont mean to get too off topic but please dont do this. Wandering abandoned buildings is very dangerous. Roofs and stairs can collapse seemingly for no reason, exposed floor tile can release asbestos, and dry bathrooms without water in the pipes can expose you to potentially lethal concentrations of sewer gasses like methane and hydrogen sulfide that build up in enclosed restrooms with no power to ventilation systems.
If a fire starts, most emergency exits will be barracaded.
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This was a design patent, not a utility patent. That means they patented the look of the tablet, meaning the non-functional parts. They did not have a patent on the "concept of a tablet." I guess I can go look up that design patent now. It's entirely possible that 2001 did anticipate the look of the iPad, but we can also look at the record of the trial to find out how this played out.
If you know how to find the outcome of this particular legal argument I'd be very happy to read it :). I was studying at the time and a lawyer that was teaching us the basics of copyright and patent law told us about the then ongoing case. Also, yes, you're right, forgot some key details after the 10 years. Can't believe it was that long ago.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4178089/apple-inc-v-sam...
I know this case continued up to at least 2015, since that was when I went to watch for a day. When I went, there were some utility patents at issue.
Motorola is still alive, in another formal.
Veridian Dynamics?
I love the tone of this, it’s like the musings of an explorer who discovered a jungle city abandoned by a mysterious civilization. “there were old wall slogans inside that must have been added to motivate and inspire the employees” … “ the tall building had several brick structures on the lower main level. He suspected that those structures probably had plants and ferns in them so that important business clients and…