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Article wrote: and took a phone book from his pocket wallet.
Either FTFH or his trousers had really big pockets
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He certainly wasn't the first to use a portable phone. Sweden started as early as 1951. Norway had a public mobile phone service (OLT - Offentlig Landobil Telefoni, Public Land based Telephony) running from 1966. It was operator assisted, though. So we must read the claim in the present article as "the first automated mobile phone".
The reason for naming OLT 'land based' telephony is that from as early as 1931 you could place phone calls to fishing boats along the Norwegian coast. This was a very manual system, though - you had to tell the operator in which area the boat was located, and the operator at its nearest Cost radio station called the radio operator on the fishing boat using medium wave radio, and hook the shortwave up to the phone land line. (The fisheries had their own radio frequencies, the 'Fisheries band' frequencies, in the upper part of the MW range.)
His phone is described as a 'cell phone'. However, no cellular network existed in 1973. This call must have been a point-to-point connection, probably not even needing any automatic switching! The first cellular phone network ever was using the NMT technology ("Nordic Mobile Telephone") developed in a joint project by the Nordic telecommunication administrations, started in 1969. The Nordic countries opened their networks, with roaming across the national borders, a couple of weeks after Saudi Arabia in 1981, being the first commercial cellphone network ever. At that time, the OLT mobile phone system had 30,000 Norwegian subscribers (in a population of slightly above 4 million). Over the years, 30 countries adopted the Nordic technology. In Norway, NMT was operational to the end of 2004, when GSM (and its derivatives) had taken over.
I guess Marty Cooper's phone was first in some aspect(s) of mobile telephony, but most certainly not of mobile telephony (or cellular networks) as such.
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The patch of irregular vertical lines that revolutionized checking out at the supermarket and facilitated the globalization of retail is turning 50. It's been with us through thick and thin
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It's time to deep-six it!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Bar codes won't last forever. Nor will QR.
Replacing bar codes with QR: "What's in it for me?" Ask any shop owner. Any librarian. Any publisher. 99.9% of them is likely to answer "Nothing, as far as I can see".
We are not going to replace all our cash registers, store and archival systems, label printers and whatever just because some guys think QR is more fancy. It would cost billions, and have no distinct benefit. QR does have benefits in some uses, but those are only marginally overlapping with the use of UPC. QR and UPC is going to live side by side for many years to come, without one displacing the other.
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True - it's the long time battle of "new thing" vs. "this is good enough".
Besides, bar code printers are shockingly expensive (at least the last time I looked). That's a big expense to throw away just to get a (very, if any) moderate increase in benefit.
TTFN - Kent
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Following the popularity of ChatGPT and its integration into Microsoft's Bing, a former employee has claimed that Google uses data from OpenAI's chatbot in order to train Bard, its homegrown competitor. Has anyone asked either of them?
Google denies it of course, but then again, Microsoft denies Bing was trained on Google searches...
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What was first, the egg or the chicken?
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The protoplasmic lying of CEOs came first.
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answer from chat gpt below ---- As an AI language model, I do not have access to insider information and cannot confirm the veracity of the specific claims made in the article. However, the allegations about Google using data from OpenAI's ChatGPT to train its own chatbot, Bard, have been reported by various reputable news outlets. Google has denied the allegations, stating that Bard is not trained on any data from ChatGPT or ShareGPT. It is important to note that the competition between tech companies in the field of AI and chatbots is intense, and it is not uncommon for such allegations to surface.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Even with the oldest obsolete software, ChatGPT will reject direct key requests. Great news if you just want to get started up?
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Pfff... If they were for win 98... I have some old games that don't want to run in emulated systems (or I am not capable to run them) 
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man slow news days...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Plants make clicking sounds that animals may hear, travel 16 feet, and have now been tuned down for human ears to hear for the first time. This is what is sounds like...when plants cry
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Looking what we do with forests... I hope Treebeard doesn't calls another "last march" against us 
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A bipartisan group of senators has introduced the AMERICA Act (Advertising Middlemen Endangering Rigorous Internet Competition Accountability — yes, it's overwrought) with the intention of breaking up the ad businesses of tech giants like Google and Meta. Sidebar ads would be sold separately from banner ads
They really worked to make that acronym work, didn't they?
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Did they just thought on a second that the ads are not the problem per se? They should break up the data slurping on the back of the users even if they don't want to.
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No more than they considered that the US should have a real data privacy law instead of trying to find ways to ban tiktok.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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first they need to make a bill to break up the lobbyist...and why not apple oracle micrsoft etc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A bipartisan group of senators has introduced the AMERICA Act
Next week - the ASIA Act (Advertising Shills Internet Anarchy). 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Panoramic Software's Charles Scalfani on the benefits we could reap from changing how we write software Most of my code is barely functional
Did someone tell the goto that it's been killed?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Did someone tell the goto that it's been killed?
I suppose they have used the same guy that had to tell C, C++ and VB6 that they are killed too.
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And Cobol. Don't forget Cobol.
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The vulnerability could let attackers hijack network traffic; iOS, Linux, and Android devices may be affected. How did Windows manage to duck this one?
Or was it already exploited and fixed?
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