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A History of Apple's Operating Systems
jpkunst writes "Amit Singh of kernelthread.com has written A History of Apple's Operating Systems. From the introduction: 'This document discusses operating systems that Apple has created in the past, and many that it tried to create. Through this discussion, we will come across several technologies the confluence of which eventually led to Mac OS X'."
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So spake Steven McGraTH
Nice content, but the page design is less than stellar. Why did it have to use such a nonstandard aspect ratio?
WHAT DOES AN INJUN KNOW?
Skinner: Children, the times they are a-becoming quite different. Test
scores are at an all-time low, so I've come up with these
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soon as your grades start to slip in any subject. This way
your parents won't have to wait until report card time to
punish you.
Martin: How innovative. I like it!
Kearney: Hey Dolph, take a memo on your Newton: beat up Martin.
[Dolph writes "Beat up Martin" which the Newton translates as
"Eat up Martha"]
Bah! [throws Newton]
Martin: [being bonked on the head] Ow!
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What? No, I use mozilla. I just have it set up to put an icon in the status bar if a popup is requested, so I can see it if I need... and I don't like seeing that icon, because it means the person is a Bad Person, even if it doesn't directly effect me.
I've had this sig for three days.
Since quitting the Navy six months early at age 27 so he could run for Congress on an antiwar platform, John Kerry has built a political career on his service in Vietnam. His unsuccessful 1970 congressional bid lasted only a month, during which it proved impossible for even he to get to the left of the winner, Robert Drinan, but it forged a conflicting political persona - one hammered out between his combat medals earned in the Mekong delta and the common cause he made with the enemy upon his return home.
Now, at age 60, the junior Democratic senator from Massachusetts is milking his veteran status once again in an effort to show that he's tougher and more patriotic than the man he seeks to replace, President George W. Bush. And, as unrepentant as ever for his pro-Hanoi activism, he is just as conflicted in 2004 as he was in the 1960s.
If there is any consistency in Kerry's political career, it is his in-your-face use of that four-month stint in Vietnam. He enlisted like many other young men of privilege, trying to serve without going to the front lines. When in 1966 it looked like his draft number was coming up during his senior year at Yale University, and already having spoken out in public against the war, Kerry signed up with the Navy under the conscious inspiration of his hero, the late President John F. Kennedy. As a lieutenant junior grade, Kerry skippered a CTF-115 swift boat, a light, aluminum patrol vessel that bore a passing resemblance to PT-109. He thought he'd arranged to avoid combat. "I didn't really want to get involved in the war," he later would tell the Boston Globe. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling, and that's what I thought I was going to do."
Soon, however, Kerry was reassigned to patrol the Mekong River in South Vietnam, a formative experience for his political odyssey. The official record shows that he rose to the occasion. It was along the Mekong where he first killed a man, aggressively fighting the enemy Viet Cong and reportedly saving the lives of his own men, earning a Bronze Star, a Silver Star for valor, and three Purple Hearts in the process.
Kerry opted for reassignment to New York City, where - as a uniformed, active-duty officer - he reportedly began acting out the antiwar feelings he had expressed before enlisting. Press reports from the time say that he marched in the October 1969 Moratorium protests - a mass demonstration by a quarter-million people that had been orchestrated the previous summer by North Vietnamese officials and American antiwar leaders in Cuba (see sidebar, p. 27). Kerry had found his purpose in life. The New York Times reported on April 23, 1971, that at about the time of the Moratorium march, Lt. Kerry had "asked for, and was given, an early release from the Navy so he could run for Congress on an antiwar platform from his home district in Waltham, Mass."
For Kerry, politicizing the nation's war effort for partisan purposes was the right thing to do, in contrast to the violent revolutionary designs of colleagues who were out to destroy the system. Kerry didn't want to take down the establishment. He wanted to take it over. His aborted, monthlong 1970 congressional campaign was a victory for him politically, as it landed him on television's popular Dick Cavett Show, where he came to the attention of some of the central organizers of the antiwar/pro-Hanoi group known as Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).
VVAW was a numerically small part of the protest movement, but it was extremely influential through skillful political theater, the novelty of uniformed combat veterans joining the Vietniks, and a ruthless coalition-building strategy that forged partnerships with the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), its Trotskyite rival, the Socialist Workers Party, and a broad front that ranged from pacifists to supporters of the Black Panthers and other domestic terrorist groups.
Kerry signed on as a full-time organizer and member of th
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A pizza doesn't scream in the oven.
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What do nigger kids get for Christmas?
Your bike. What's a niggers idea of foreplay?
"Don't scream or I'll cut you, bitch."
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What did Abe Lincoln say after a 3 day drunk?
"I set WHO free?"
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They know in a million years they are going to turn into niggers.
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The harder you hit it the more English you get.
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All of them if you put them in the ashtray.
A nigger and a spic jump off the Empire State Building, who hits the ground first?
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The spic, because the nigger had to stop on the way down and spray paint "motherfucker" on the wall.
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Not only can it stop on a dime, it will go back and pick it up.
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A quarter-pounder.
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All of them.
How do you start a foot race in Ethiopia?
Roll a doughnut down the street.
How many niggers does it take to pave a driveway?
One if you spread him real thin.
How do you blindfold a chink?
Dental floss.
How do chinks name their kids?
Face down, ass up. That's the way we like to fuck.
LONG LIVE ANDREW DICE CLAY!
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I am a vegisexual. Is it possible to return to the 'fruit colours' naming scheme?
Thanks,
Carrot Top
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I am off topic... but who is the idiot that marked the parent as "Off Topic"???
When I read the article, NeXTSTeP was an integral part of the history of Apple. The comment was just as relevant than the other comments on "I remember the insert your favorite tech from Apple here" that are getting "Interesting" or "Insightful".
When will we get moderators that actually read the articles?? I actually wish I had uber-moderator points now so I can bitch-slap the original moderator.
Coderz 4 Life
Al Gore - Smart guy, but not expert in the field.
:)
Not an expert in the field??!! He invented the Internet!!
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Visual BASIC?