It's good that you and some others are defending the US Federal Government. Somebody needs to. They certainly do a lot of things that they can't reasonably defend on their own.
It's really, really important that common sense be mandated by the Federal Government. Don't let anybody try to pull that crap where they imply anything to the contrary.
And this is what so many big government types just can't understand. If we want to protect the environment we need to adopt it as a personal value and we each need to look at situations and use our own judgment.
All big-government types understand is that rush of power when they think to themselves "we won, we're in charge now."
I'd also put Norton Guides or the ORIGINAL Norton Utilities ahead of Norton Anti-Virus.
It's a book:
"The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC."
Calls out all the DOS interrupts and how to code with them, etc.
I think of 'Peter Norton' now as a bitmap on a box. That all he is. That's all he needs to be, of course, because he's done enough, and earned his reward.
That depends on what is meant by 'device support.'
Linux runs a distant second to Windows in terms of keeping 'caught up' on support for the latest shiney consumer doo-dads people buy in big box stores. Unix (BSD) barely competes in that sphere. But it isn't because BSD couldn't compete if the BSD developers considered it important.
And would not the first step towards taking responsibility, being honest about what one have done, rather then to try and cover that up?
That would be why, having the 'unfortunate history' may make it hard to get an interview, but if it's later discovered you covered something up, you can be instantly fired on the spot, even years later, if HR wishes it so.
It's interesting to discover that Tolkein had his target demographic identified and even a name to assign to it.
Though, it's not so much a 'demographic' as a social strata he helped create: the 'trapped between' permanent adolescent. The kind who can speak elven, etc.
The customer does not have a place in the organization. S/he need not have any 'reasonable accomodation' for the boss and staff. You pays yer dollar and gets yer goods. Or you go to the next vendor.
I can only think of five or six computer-related books that old that are worth buying used for cheap (much less new at full price), and the authors are all household names
Well, you probably don't buy many books on Algorithms. I can think of three Knuth books right away worth buying for near full price.
The books that cause used booksellers to not want to stock ANY computer books, unfortunately, are the 'Learning Word 2000' ones that form the bulk of computer books.
'Household names?' I agree that my copy of 'The Peter Norton Guide to Programming the IBM PC' is fairly dated. It's from 1985 though, and still of value to someone getting started with bare-metal Assembly Language. What other 'household name' is on the cover of ANY computer book??
Maybe that's how it works for you, but I don't know anybody who "pirates" stuff and then also buys it.
He didn't say he buys it. He said he had to build a new shelf for his (presumably home-burned) DVD collection. He's missing out, apparently, on the fact that with thin paper (or better: tyvek) sleeves it all doesn't need to take much more space up than the original cakebox.
I killed a bunch of weeds last week. We had a grassfire in the field this year and weeds went nuts on am area of the newly burned over land. They won't be coming back, not without new seeds.
There are weeds that work the way GP posited it, though. I believe kudzu comes back from a killing pretty virulently. Underground pods cause it to regenerate virulently.
Modding it 'funny' brings the point total up without rewarding the poster. No karma is issued for 'funny' mods. So it's actually a way of punishing the poster, while also bringing their comment into greater prominence. Now that it's at 5, nobody is going to mod it up again, so.... poster gets no karma points.
All they need to do is maintain compatability with the published Win32 api. The Mozilla code base can even, thusly, serve as a base for all other projects that want to remain Win32 platforms but resist any creeping bullshit Microsoft would otherwise foist off. Rigorously maintained compatability with Windows 2000 could become a stake in the ground and a resource for all developers, everywhere. If it don't work on any newer Microsoft platforms, Microsoft needs to fix the API, to be frank. (not that they would, but any developer with a clue will see the value in my assertion)
Exellent! Does this mean official builds for NetBSD/i386, which is the other platform, besides Windows 2000, that I run on my home desktops?? It would be awesome for there to be an official NetBSD/i386 build.
Or are you talking about the crap I was hearing up above a bit ago about some sort of Aero bullshit? Maybe they should embed Silverlight, too. I bet it's mighty warm and cosy that far up Ballmer's colon....
As long as they don't come out with detectives and try to take away my two W2K licenses, I could give a rip wether Microsoft 'supports' my W2K boxes. I refuse to upgrade past W2k. All the briteboys who aren't even old enough to have used W2K can say what they want. Microsoft hasn't done anything since the W2K release compelling enough for anybody with a clue to upgrade past it. That's the whole POINT in keeping Mozilla current on W2K.
In any event, I thumb my nose at Firefox anyway. Seamonkey rules my world.
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It's good that you and some others are defending the US Federal Government. Somebody needs to. They certainly do a lot of things that they can't reasonably defend on their own.
It's really, really important that common sense be mandated by the Federal Government. Don't let anybody try to pull that crap where they imply anything to the contrary.
And this is what so many big government types just can't understand. If we want to protect the environment we need to adopt it as a personal value and we each need to look at situations and use our own judgment.
All big-government types understand is that rush of power when they think to themselves "we won, we're in charge now."
Everything else is secondary to that rush.
I'd also put Norton Guides or the ORIGINAL Norton Utilities ahead of Norton Anti-Virus.
It's a book:
"The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC."
Calls out all the DOS interrupts and how to code with them, etc.
I think of 'Peter Norton' now as a bitmap on a box. That all he is. That's all he needs to be, of course, because he's done enough, and earned his reward.
The caffeine jag after the fifth reboot of the morning, however, was never so sweet.
Occasionally real work could get done.
That's true, but 'most other c compilers' are undergrad assignments that get abandoned after senior year.
GCC is resoundingly NOT superior to commercial compilers where there is a competent professional team in charge, i.e. those from Sun and Intel.
That depends on what is meant by 'device support.'
Linux runs a distant second to Windows in terms of keeping 'caught up' on support for the latest shiney consumer doo-dads people buy in big box stores. Unix (BSD) barely competes in that sphere. But it isn't because BSD couldn't compete if the BSD developers considered it important.
There are a lot of people who make money out of marketing-driven redundancy based on hype and hand-waving.
Don't be self-limiting. There are several members of the Obama administration who aren't tax cheats.
You may have inadvertently alluded to Kim Jong Il's secret problem.
And both commies and cappies are guilty of such arrogance.
Really? And you have evidence and examples to back up said assertion?
There is no reason that everybody who wants a college/medical/legal/whatever education and is willing to pay for it shouldn't be able to obtain one.
Certainly!
Further, there's no reason why anybody who wants to be a rock star and is willing to pay for it shouldn't be able to attain that goal.
The problem with the above is that society only needs so many rock stars, and so many MDs. And so many EEs, etc.
We can't just educate our way to prosperity.
And would not the first step towards taking responsibility, being honest about what one have done, rather then to try and cover that up?
That would be why, having the 'unfortunate history' may make it hard to get an interview, but if it's later discovered you covered something up, you can be instantly fired on the spot, even years later, if HR wishes it so.
It's interesting to discover that Tolkein had his target demographic identified and even a name to assign to it.
Though, it's not so much a 'demographic' as a social strata he helped create: the 'trapped between' permanent adolescent. The kind who can speak elven, etc.
The customer does not have a place in the organization. S/he need not have any 'reasonable accomodation' for the boss and staff. You pays yer dollar and gets yer goods. Or you go to the next vendor.
Kernel 1.2.13 was a good baseline for a long time.
I can only think of five or six computer-related books that old that are worth buying used for cheap (much less new at full price), and the authors are all household names
Well, you probably don't buy many books on Algorithms. I can think of three Knuth books right away worth buying for near full price.
The books that cause used booksellers to not want to stock ANY computer books, unfortunately, are the 'Learning Word 2000' ones that form the bulk of computer books.
'Household names?' I agree that my copy of 'The Peter Norton Guide to Programming the IBM PC' is fairly dated. It's from 1985 though, and still of value to someone getting started with bare-metal Assembly Language. What other 'household name' is on the cover of ANY computer book??
He simply said it wasn't helping sales.
That's even harder for him to substantiate.
Maybe some people are downloading an unauthorized copy, looking it over, and then going to Amazon and purchasing a hard-copy edition. He doesn't know.
Maybe that's how it works for you, but I don't know anybody who "pirates" stuff and then also buys it.
He didn't say he buys it. He said he had to build a new shelf for his (presumably home-burned) DVD collection. He's missing out, apparently, on the fact that with thin paper (or better: tyvek) sleeves it all doesn't need to take much more space up than the original cakebox.
I killed a bunch of weeds last week. We had a grassfire in the field this year and weeds went nuts on am area of the newly burned over land. They won't be coming back, not without new seeds.
There are weeds that work the way GP posited it, though. I believe kudzu comes back from a killing pretty virulently. Underground pods cause it to regenerate virulently.
He should have cited 'Harvard' or 'Yale' or 'Princeton.'
until you kick them into the pit and tell them to get back to work.
Let me take a stab at what political ideology you identify as.....
Modding it 'funny' brings the point total up without rewarding the poster. No karma is issued for 'funny' mods. So it's actually a way of punishing the poster, while also bringing their comment into greater prominence. Now that it's at 5, nobody is going to mod it up again, so.... poster gets no karma points.
All they need to do is maintain compatability with the published Win32 api. The Mozilla code base can even, thusly, serve as a base for all other projects that want to remain Win32 platforms but resist any creeping bullshit Microsoft would otherwise foist off. Rigorously maintained compatability with Windows 2000 could become a stake in the ground and a resource for all developers, everywhere. If it don't work on any newer Microsoft platforms, Microsoft needs to fix the API, to be frank. (not that they would, but any developer with a clue will see the value in my assertion)
Exellent! Does this mean official builds for NetBSD/i386, which is the other platform, besides Windows 2000, that I run on my home desktops?? It would be awesome for there to be an official NetBSD/i386 build.
Or are you talking about the crap I was hearing up above a bit ago about some sort of Aero bullshit? Maybe they should embed Silverlight, too. I bet it's mighty warm and cosy that far up Ballmer's colon....
As long as they don't come out with detectives and try to take away my two W2K licenses, I could give a rip wether Microsoft 'supports' my W2K boxes. I refuse to upgrade past W2k. All the briteboys who aren't even old enough to have used W2K can say what they want. Microsoft hasn't done anything since the W2K release compelling enough for anybody with a clue to upgrade past it. That's the whole POINT in keeping Mozilla current on W2K.
In any event, I thumb my nose at Firefox anyway. Seamonkey rules my world.