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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part XVIX)

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We spent our last installment reviewing the special and sometimes troublesome engineering that was standard on the Brougham. Since then, I discovered this April 1957 edition of The Cadillac Serviceman , GM’s in-house magazine publication for its dealer service centers. Now legal in all states, all Cadillacs adopted them immediately.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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That goal led ultimately to a page description language called PostScript, today the de facto standard of desktop publishing. proved loath to support a truly standard language. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. in Mountain View, Calif.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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Complete plans for the Galaksija were first published in 1983 in an article in the computer magazine Računari u vašoj kući as a joint venture between the Galaksija’s designer, Voja Antonić , and the magazine’s editor, Dejan Ristanović. (An An English translation of the article was published by No Starch Press in 2018 in PoC||GTFO Vol.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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Steven Cherry: There's a process in legal cases, especially lawsuits, that involves an incredibly tedious process of finding and extracting information from sometimes enormous masses of data that by law, the other side has to provide. So yes, these are very much real-world use cases.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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The Mac’s success during the 1980s spurred Apple Computer to pursue legal action over ownership of many features of the graphical user interface. Suits now being litigated could assign those innovations not to the designers and their companies, but to those who first filed for legal protection on them. Mountain View, Calif.: “Two

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