Does anybody remember the PBS documentry "Revenge of the Nerds" about the development of home compuers? During the section about the IBM PC, ms needed an os to demonstrate ms basic on the pc for ibm. Not having such an operating system, they bought one called QDOS, aka Quick and Dirty Operating System. A rather large percentage of QDOS used code "borrowed" from CP/M-86, made by Digital Research. If you poke around on the Caldera website, you will discover that Caldera now owns CP/M as well. Interesting.....
We have to keep in mind what a clusterfuck the (American)public education system is. At the high school I went to (until june) a member of the football team known for violent behavior attacked a female student for making fun of his superman tattoo. He also attacked her boyfriend when he tried to protect her. Several months later in a most likely steroid-induced rage, he nearly beat someone to death in a convienience store parking lot, claiming that "he flipped me off". I saw no response from the administration whatsoever, no outcry about crazed teens in jerseys. Several months later, in a _DIFFERENT STATE_, Columnbine High is shot up. Then, everything snapped into action. Trench coats were banned and grief counciling was availible for something that happened hundreds of miles away. And why is this? The psychotic football player was a "good kid". He did what he was told to, and "helped out the team", while the trench coat wearing (and other similar) freaks couldn't give a teaspoon full of shit about school spirit or anything else that they were told to care about. I am very glad that Washington pays for community college for high school students. That was where I spent most of my time.
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Does anybody remember the PBS documentry "Revenge of the Nerds" about the development of home compuers? During the section about the IBM PC, ms needed an os to demonstrate ms basic on the pc for ibm. Not having such an operating system, they bought one called QDOS, aka Quick and Dirty Operating System. A rather large percentage of QDOS used code "borrowed" from CP/M-86, made by Digital Research. If you poke around on the Caldera website, you will discover that Caldera now owns CP/M as well. Interesting.....
We have to keep in mind what a clusterfuck the (American)public education system is. At the high school I went to (until june) a member of the football team known for violent behavior attacked a female student for making fun of his superman tattoo. He also attacked her boyfriend when he tried to protect her. Several months later in a most likely steroid-induced rage, he nearly beat someone to death in a convienience store parking lot, claiming that "he flipped me off". I saw no response from the administration whatsoever, no outcry about crazed teens in jerseys. Several months later, in a _DIFFERENT STATE_, Columnbine High is shot up. Then, everything snapped into action. Trench coats were banned and grief counciling was availible for something that happened hundreds of miles away. And why is this? The psychotic football player was a "good kid". He did what he was told to, and "helped out the team", while the trench coat wearing (and other similar) freaks couldn't give a teaspoon full of shit about school spirit or anything else that they were told to care about. I am very glad that Washington pays for community college for high school students. That was where I spent most of my time.
Many creationistm activists argue that evolution is merely a theory, and not a fact. We must keep in mind that _gravity_ is also a theory.