He gives a lot more supporting evidence for his position than you do. He apparently loved his work enough to provide some analysis and run a spell checker on it.
Now, I happen to agree that Jerry Pournelle is in general, an idiot. Which is why I'm so surprised that his article is so insightful. The only thing which could have surprised me more is if it had been written by the Lord High Idiot, Nicholas Petreley.
Presto it's surly day!
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Fun stuff to read, and appropriately sarcasto-flamey and all that, but
I know nothing about this person
you've spent too much time reading about "evil Microsoft deeds" and not enough about the history of GUIs.
Yeah, it's a good thing we can count on Slashdot rambling for our financial advice and don't have to listen to the near-unanimous re-iterations of "Buy" or "Strong Buy" from actual financial advisors. 6mo->1year predictions are still 110-115 across the board. A quarter of it's value? Need I ask which orifice you pulled that number out of? ("since it's already split so much" hahahaha) Sorry, feeling particularly "flamey" today:) Have you considered that the stock didn't move much today because people have thought it through? Presto here comes my -1
Ahaha, I'd hate to be your grandfather, watching with incomprehension as you force him to use vi, lynx, screen and tin:)
"Yeah, granddad, just hit ctrl-A C, type "lynx", hit G, type in the full address of the thing, oh and now you can conveniently use H J K and L to move around on the links. What? No, H. Right. H, J K... No, J is up. Oh, screw it grandpa, just RTFM"
Presto
man, I hate the fact that slashdot's posting doesn't do newlines without a BR:(
Ahaha, I'd hate to be your grandfather, watching with incomprehension as you force him to use vi, lynx, screen and tin:) Yeah, granddad, just hit ctrl-A C, type "lynx", hit G, type in the full address of the thing, oh and now you can conveniently use H J K and L to move around on the links. What? No, H. Right. H, J K... No, J is up. Oh, screw it grandpa, just RTFM" Presto
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He gives a lot more supporting evidence for his position than you do. He apparently loved his work enough to provide some analysis and run a spell checker on it.
Now, I happen to agree that Jerry Pournelle is in general, an idiot. Which is why I'm so surprised that his article is so insightful. The only thing which could have surprised me more is if it had been written by the Lord High Idiot, Nicholas Petreley.
Presto
it's surly day!
Fun stuff to read, and appropriately sarcasto-flamey and all that, but
I know nothing about this person
you've spent too much time reading about "evil Microsoft deeds" and not enough about the history of GUIs.
Presto
Yeah, it's a good thing we can count on Slashdot rambling for our financial advice and don't have to listen to the near-unanimous re-iterations of "Buy" or "Strong Buy" from actual financial advisors. 6mo->1year predictions are still 110-115 across the board. A quarter of it's value? Need I ask which orifice you pulled that number out of? ("since it's already split so much" hahahaha) Sorry, feeling particularly "flamey" today :) Have you considered that the stock didn't move much today because people have thought it through? Presto here comes my -1
Ahaha, I'd hate to be your grandfather, watching with incomprehension as you force him to use vi, lynx, screen and tin :)
... No, J is up. Oh, screw it grandpa, just RTFM"
:(
"Yeah, granddad, just hit ctrl-A C, type "lynx", hit G, type in the full address of the thing, oh and now you can conveniently use H J K and L to move around on the links. What? No, H. Right. H, J K
Presto
man, I hate the fact that slashdot's posting doesn't do newlines without a BR
Ahaha, I'd hate to be your grandfather, watching with incomprehension as you force him to use vi, lynx, screen and tin :) Yeah, granddad, just hit ctrl-A C, type "lynx", hit G, type in the full address of the thing, oh and now you can conveniently use H J K and L to move around on the links. What? No, H. Right. H, J K ... No, J is up. Oh, screw it grandpa, just RTFM" Presto