You can run Win 3.1 under OS/2 instead of DOS. Install it on JFS if you want a relatively recent file system. Only things that won't work are long file names, greater than 2 GB files and you have to be careful about free space as many installers use a signed 32 bit so overflow with more then 2 GB free space. That was the reason that OS/2 could advertise a faster Windows and DOS, namely a faster file system.
You're answer is in your post. Winos2, basically a bug fixed Win 3.1 is still sold with OS/2. Actually an OEM version of OS/2, http://www.ecomstation.com/index.phtml. Can install on modern hardware though you have to be choosy about it and run some things such as SATA in compatibility mode but it has a legal 16 bit Windows.
Seems weird to even use a jury for most civil suites. As you quote, the jury wants to go home so if it is a long trial... As well something like a patent suite is going to take intelligent people to understand, even with good expert witnesses and the odds of one prejudiced juror seems high. The elected judiciary also seems odd. Judges should be aiming for truth, not re-election, which basically means a bunch of common people who probably have not got all the facts second guessing judges decisions.
Not downvoted, just not upvoted. AC starts at zero. And of course CP/M was impressive, somewhat cross-platform (by using a co-processor at times) and at the time important as the first real personal computer operating system.
I'm in Canada which is usually much worse then America when it comes to cell phones. My wife has a prepaid plan through 7-11 (Speakeasy) which after paying $100 for a year, costs $25 per year. It's not cheap either, 25 cents a minute, 20 cents a sms, both incoming and outgoing. I started with Fido years ago, it was $25 for 3 months, 20 cents a minute with per second billing. Now it's $10 a month + 10 cents a minute, 20 cents a sms with monthly expiry. Every couple of months part of the plan goes up, like sms, roaming, long distance and so on. These companies need to break last years record earnings every year and their prices reflect this. The idea of phones getting cheaper, at least for people like me who use it minimally, is a dream
Actually Woz did put those chips together in ways that were innovative. He came up with a way to produce colour with less chips then anyone else which was a major selling point of the Apple II, put the chips together in a way that was less expensive then what others were doing and came up with an innovative, affordable way to add a disk drive to the computer. I can still hear the echos of Jobs, "Users don't need colour, users don't need expandability" which of course were the selling points of the Apple II. It was the sales of the Apple II that allowed the money losing Mac to exist for years whereas if the Apple II had been allowed to continue evolving Apple may well have been much more profitable. A fast, colour computer with Jeff's operating system, expandability, and perhaps the largest collection of software available.
Jobs created 2 companies with his profits from Apple. While Jobs obviously was a very good businessman, how far he would have got without the money to open those businesses is something we'll never know.
Aren't you being backwards? It was Woz who created the hardware without which Jobs would not have amounted to much more then another salesman and the reason that you're unaware of Wozniak's impressive work at Apple is that Jobs did his best to kill it. Killing superior hardware to stroke an ego is not a good trait.
Yes they are, it just takes a super-majority to change the list of constitutional rights. As the sibling points out, those constitutional rights were added to the constitution.
While campaign financing reform is important, it is only part of the problem. The other problem is free speech which allows political advertising consisting of lies. People are very easily influenced by lies if they are repeated enough. I find it happening to me even when I know it is a lie. Unluckily there doesn't seem to be a fix for this issue without majorly stepping on peoples freedoms which would be even worse then the current system. One solution would be an unelected part of government, perhaps the upper house but I can't think of a good way to have that.
Supermarket scanners didn't cause the downfall of western civilization. What's different this time?
Actually supermarket scanners and all the related technology is causing the downfall of western civilization. The governments are currently buffering it by borrowing and forcing low interest rates but remove things like food stamps, welfare for all able bodied people and lower unemployment insurance and social security down to the levels that balance with the input, eg only collecting UI for a few months. Also remove the make work that the government heavily borrows for and western civilization will crash. Just because we're living on our credit cards does not mean everything is fine.
Huh? East Germany was very democratic, one man one vote with that man being the supreme ruler or whatever his title was. Now here in the west we're not very democratic as only corporations seem to have the real vote.
Once again a good chunk of my post got eaten. I'll try again.
It's been a long time since I read up on the Okhrana, which was triggered by stories from Russians who were descended from refugees from Czarist Russia. As far as I remember reading, while not as far spread as later, they seemed to practice many of the same methods as the NKVD and the books I read painted them much the same as more modern secret police. Of course technology has continuously allowed more efficiency and Stalin's paranoia took things to a whole different level. Also Czarist Russia mostly consisted of peasants who weren't considered as much of a threat so the Okhrana mostly practiced in the cities that had intellectuals and eventually socialists. Really it seemed to be more of a culture thing as much as anything and I'd guess that Solzhenitsyn would have had his own views based on a hatred of Communism and seeing the Czarist times as more golden. History is hard to research in an unbiased manner as everything is coloured by the viewpoints of those whose writings we read and the documents that survive.
It's been a long time since I read up on the Okhrana, which was triggered by stories from Russians who were descended from refugees from Czarist Russia. As far as I remember reading, while not as far spread as later, they seemed to practice many of the same methods as the NKVD and the books I read painted them much the same as more moder
Religion is much older then the first century and there are many more religions then Christianity. The grandparent is basically right, religion attempted to explain the world. Of course some religions evolved into much larger movements and stories of miraculous events were used to help that along. If there was truth behind religion then most religions would agree on the fundamental truths instead of every society having their own religion, often violently disagreeing on those supposed fundamental truths.
True. Probably every authoritarian regime has had some form of secret police and even democracies, especially during times of war have had them. What the Russians did was invent (perfect?) the modern secret police that the KGB was based on.
Most of my post seems to have been lost so here it is again
Has it ever been studied? Lung cancer was very rare in the west until after the chemical additives were added to tobacco. And yes, people lived long enough to get lung cancer, at least those people who made it past childhood. If all the smoking causes cancer studies were done with tobacco that had many additives added, it's not conclusive whether it's the tobacco or cigarettes that cause cancer. There's also the fact that the common insecticide used on tobacco fields was lead arsenic, common fertilizer was full of polonium and crop rotation was not practiced all that much.
It may well be one of the many chemicals found in tobacco that are not found in marijuana, but smoking fresh cut and dried tobacco leaves off the plantation isn't going to keep you from getting cancer due to a lack of "additives".
Has it ever been studied? Lung cancer was very rare in the west until after
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You can run Win 3.1 under OS/2 instead of DOS. Install it on JFS if you want a relatively recent file system. Only things that won't work are long file names, greater than 2 GB files and you have to be careful about free space as many installers use a signed 32 bit so overflow with more then 2 GB free space.
That was the reason that OS/2 could advertise a faster Windows and DOS, namely a faster file system.
You're answer is in your post. Winos2, basically a bug fixed Win 3.1 is still sold with OS/2. Actually an OEM version of OS/2, http://www.ecomstation.com/index.phtml. Can install on modern hardware though you have to be choosy about it and run some things such as SATA in compatibility mode but it has a legal 16 bit Windows.
Seems weird to even use a jury for most civil suites. As you quote, the jury wants to go home so if it is a long trial...
As well something like a patent suite is going to take intelligent people to understand, even with good expert witnesses and the odds of one prejudiced juror seems high.
The elected judiciary also seems odd. Judges should be aiming for truth, not re-election, which basically means a bunch of common people who probably have not got all the facts second guessing judges decisions.
Not downvoted, just not upvoted. AC starts at zero.
And of course CP/M was impressive, somewhat cross-platform (by using a co-processor at times) and at the time important as the first real personal computer operating system.
I'm in Canada which is usually much worse then America when it comes to cell phones. My wife has a prepaid plan through 7-11 (Speakeasy) which after paying $100 for a year, costs $25 per year. It's not cheap either, 25 cents a minute, 20 cents a sms, both incoming and outgoing.
I started with Fido years ago, it was $25 for 3 months, 20 cents a minute with per second billing. Now it's $10 a month + 10 cents a minute, 20 cents a sms with monthly expiry. Every couple of months part of the plan goes up, like sms, roaming, long distance and so on. These companies need to break last years record earnings every year and their prices reflect this. The idea of phones getting cheaper, at least for people like me who use it minimally, is a dream
Actually Woz did put those chips together in ways that were innovative. He came up with a way to produce colour with less chips then anyone else which was a major selling point of the Apple II, put the chips together in a way that was less expensive then what others were doing and came up with an innovative, affordable way to add a disk drive to the computer.
I can still hear the echos of Jobs, "Users don't need colour, users don't need expandability" which of course were the selling points of the Apple II. It was the sales of the Apple II that allowed the money losing Mac to exist for years whereas if the Apple II had been allowed to continue evolving Apple may well have been much more profitable. A fast, colour computer with Jeff's operating system, expandability, and perhaps the largest collection of software available.
Jobs created 2 companies with his profits from Apple. While Jobs obviously was a very good businessman, how far he would have got without the money to open those businesses is something we'll never know.
Look at Gates and how many consider him a super-hero, especially after he stopped being quite as cheap.
Aren't you being backwards? It was Woz who created the hardware without which Jobs would not have amounted to much more then another salesman and the reason that you're unaware of Wozniak's impressive work at Apple is that Jobs did his best to kill it.
Killing superior hardware to stroke an ego is not a good trait.
Of course it was due to America leaving the empire and not excepting any more convicts that created the need for a new penal colony.
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Yes they are, it just takes a super-majority to change the list of constitutional rights. As the sibling points out, those constitutional rights were added to the constitution.
While campaign financing reform is important, it is only part of the problem. The other problem is free speech which allows political advertising consisting of lies. People are very easily influenced by lies if they are repeated enough. I find it happening to me even when I know it is a lie. Unluckily there doesn't seem to be a fix for this issue without majorly stepping on peoples freedoms which would be even worse then the current system.
One solution would be an unelected part of government, perhaps the upper house but I can't think of a good way to have that.
Supermarket scanners didn't cause the downfall of western civilization. What's different this time?
Actually supermarket scanners and all the related technology is causing the downfall of western civilization. The governments are currently buffering it by borrowing and forcing low interest rates but remove things like food stamps, welfare for all able bodied people and lower unemployment insurance and social security down to the levels that balance with the input, eg only collecting UI for a few months. Also remove the make work that the government heavily borrows for and western civilization will crash.
Just because we're living on our credit cards does not mean everything is fine.
Huh? East Germany was very democratic, one man one vote with that man being the supreme ruler or whatever his title was.
Now here in the west we're not very democratic as only corporations seem to have the real vote.
Once again a good chunk of my post got eaten. I'll try again.
It's been a long time since I read up on the Okhrana, which was triggered by stories from Russians who were descended from refugees from Czarist Russia. As far as I remember reading, while not as far spread as later, they seemed to practice many of the same methods as the NKVD and the books I read painted them much the same as more modern secret police. Of course technology has continuously allowed more efficiency and Stalin's paranoia took things to a whole different level. Also Czarist Russia mostly consisted of peasants who weren't considered as much of a threat so the Okhrana mostly practiced in the cities that had intellectuals and eventually socialists.
Really it seemed to be more of a culture thing as much as anything and I'd guess that Solzhenitsyn would have had his own views based on a hatred of Communism and seeing the Czarist times as more golden.
History is hard to research in an unbiased manner as everything is coloured by the viewpoints of those whose writings we read and the documents that survive.
It's been a long time since I read up on the Okhrana, which was triggered by stories from Russians who were descended from refugees from Czarist Russia. As far as I remember reading, while not as far spread as later, they seemed to practice many of the same methods as the NKVD and the books I read painted them much the same as more moder
Religion is much older then the first century and there are many more religions then Christianity.
The grandparent is basically right, religion attempted to explain the world. Of course some religions evolved into much larger movements and stories of miraculous events were used to help that along.
If there was truth behind religion then most religions would agree on the fundamental truths instead of every society having their own religion, often violently disagreeing on those supposed fundamental truths.
Socialist. The people should not be allowed to own the means of production, next they'll trade banks for credit unions.
True. Probably every authoritarian regime has had some form of secret police and even democracies, especially during times of war have had them. What the Russians did was invent (perfect?) the modern secret police that the KGB was based on.
Thought Crime.
Similar to Hate Crime. (i.e. we're adding a few years to the sentence because you think you're superior.)
Don't forget first degree murder, tacking on a few years to your sentence just because you put fore-thought into your crime.
The secret police was a Russian invention predating the communists and still part of their culture.
Most of my post seems to have been lost so here it is again
Has it ever been studied? Lung cancer was very rare in the west until after the chemical additives were added to tobacco. And yes, people lived long enough to get lung cancer, at least those people who made it past childhood.
If all the smoking causes cancer studies were done with tobacco that had many additives added, it's not conclusive whether it's the tobacco or cigarettes that cause cancer. There's also the fact that the common insecticide used on tobacco fields was lead arsenic, common fertilizer was full of polonium and crop rotation was not practiced all that much.
It may well be one of the many chemicals found in tobacco that are not found in marijuana, but smoking fresh cut and dried tobacco leaves off the plantation isn't going to keep you from getting cancer due to a lack of "additives".
Has it ever been studied? Lung cancer was very rare in the west until after
The same points as adding the additives to tobacco. Make it burn better, increase the flavour and make it more addicting.