Lawyers are supposed to avoid, not precipitate, litigation.
If only more people (speaking universally, not regarding any specific group of people) took this stance. There might be less crime, corruption, hatred, etc. in the world.
I work in tech support, and just the other day one of my co-workers had a call from someone who apparently didn't even know what a mouse was; she spent at least fifteen minutes trying to get the customer to understand what he needed to do to right-click. I don't believe he was using the mouse as a foot pedal, but that is still an extremely amusing anecdote, in my opinion.
Actually, Lindon measures about four and a half miles from East to West and roughly one and a half miles from North to South; the East border is sort of diagonal, and the North border of Orem (the city immediately to its south, which is where I live) pushes into Lindon a little in a few places, so it's difficult to be more precise in the measurements.
Of course, that doesn't make your statement any less true.
I agree very much with your point. Personally, I thought the decision to not use Hardware Acceleration for the graphics was a very bad idea on Microsoft's part; that's one of the things that makes Aqua/Quartz so fast.
While what you say about the 6502 family is true (the C64 used a 6510), there are a few other factors I feel you are not giving appropriate credit to. First of all, the C64's RAM operated at the same speed as the CPU itself (it was actually rated for faster speeds) so there was no memory bottleneck as on modern machines, and all but a very few instructions required the use of RAM in some form. Secondly, I've seen the code on the C64 for floating point (it's in the CBM BASIC interpreter, and can now be researched by anyone who understands the 6502's architecture), and only the more complex FP operations required hundreds, or thousands, of cycles to perform. Multiplication was actually handled in the simplest means possible, so any random multiplication operation could be handled in a few hundred cycles.
That, and Apple has at least three batallions of lawyers ready to crush anyone who "Thinks different".
Excellent post, but were you referring to Microsoft rather than Apple; I'm not aware of any lawsuits Apple's threatened/initiated lately? I'm aware of several threats Ballmer's made, such as the 800 some odd patents he believes Linux is violating.
I know what you mean, though to be honest, I've never noticed a significant problem with my swap file; I use menu meters to track my overall memory usage, and I'm rarely finding that swap is being heavily used. At present, only 447 MB is in use, but I'm only running Firefox and Mail (and Finder, of course). I've noticed in the past, when I used Windows for a regular OS, that it often seemed to demand loads of swap memory for no explicable reason. I now use Windows on a virtual machine, and I still notice frequent hard drive use while it is running that I don't notice when it is not.
Well stated. It's nice to read a well reasoned, politely stated comment, particularly one that does not ridicule another statement that is well meaning, but not quite as carefully crafted.
Actually, the Commodore 64 had an extensive API (research the C64 KERNEL). Of course, a modern interpreter may not actually need to use that API, since they have their own, but the Commodore 64's was probably one of the most powerful APIs of its day. Anyone who programmed in assembly, as I did, and still do, to some extent, today, quickly learned this.
Also, the actual CBM BASIC interpreter was about 9.25K, not 8K; there was the A000-BFFF BASIC ROM, which contained most of the interpreter, and in the KERNEL ROM (which occupied E000-FFFF), the BASIC interpreter occupied from E000 to approximately E500 (my memory of exactly where this ended is a little fuzzy, but the KERNEL began at around that point).
I've had WordPerfect crash, and I've lost information because of it, even several hundred pages once (though I think that may have been, in part, XPs fault; the version of WordPerfect I'm using is the 2000 version and XP doesn't seem to get along very well with it). None of what I lost was all that important, though, so, though I was disappointed at the time, I wasn't too unhappy.
The most important reason I use WordPerfect, however is that it's feature rich unlike any other word processor I've ever used; I can do dozens of things easily without much hassle, including multiple things that no other word processor is capable of (such as change the format of the entire document simply by putting the cursor at the top and applying changes, no selection necessary), and the editing features (the biggest is Reveal Codes) make document composition easy and efficient.
I really wish Corel would stop pandering to Microsoft and make a real Linux or Mac OS version, or sell it to someone who would turn it back into a top contender for Word (the only reason WordPerfect fell behind Word in the first place was the first Windows port (after Novell bought the product, if I remember right) was absolutely atrocious).
Regardless, I've never seen gedit crash, not that I use it particularly often, though it does get used on occasion; I'm not a programmer and I prefer a Word Processor for any serious writing (I use WordPerfect).
Well said. And nice that you managed it without bringing in an automotive example into the mix.
As for your McCain comment in the original post. I agree as far as McCain alone is concerned, but I'd argue that there are basically the same major problems with the Obama campaign as well; his seems to create the illusion he can help with no substantive backing, and does just as little to unite the country.
Joe Biden hasn't helped any, with his comments like when he said President Franklin Roosevelt got on TV after the 1929 stock market crash, or his accusations during the vice presidential debates claiming deregulation caused our current financial crisis (congress and the Federal Reserve caused the problem, despite what wall street analysts claim).
I'd prefer a candidate whose message is one of genuine hope, not just change for the sake of change.
Just to confirm your suspicions, there is; WordPerfect has had this feature since its inception (it's been around since the eighties).
In all of the DOS versions, PgUp and PgDn always took you to the top of the previous and next pages respectively (or the top of the document if you were already on the first, or the bottom of the document if you were already on the last).
In Windows, these features are still there, but you hold Ctrl with PgUp and PgDn to use them.
Just some of them? Okay, I'll admit that I have the advantage of having tinkered with 6502 via emulator, so I have almost all of them memorized. 00: BRK, 01: ORA (zp,x), 05: ORA (zp), 06: ASL (zp), etc. And no, I didn't grab these off of a website somewhere; as I said, I remember almost everything.
I agree completely. In fact, the United States is not a democracy at all; the method we use to elect a president should make that perfectly clear, let alone statements made by founding fathers such as Benjamin Franklin (who said something to the effect of "You have a republic, if you can keep it").
Unfortunately, far too many people want the "general welfare" clause in the preamble of the constitution to mean something that it was never intended to (that clause is specifically the welfare of the nation as a whole, not of the people individually).
Agreed. Metroid Prime 3's controls are the best FPS controls I've ever used; if only they'd made Twilight Princess take advantage of more of the Wii's unique capabilities. I've enjoyed the Wii version of Twilight Princess, but there have been many annoyances that I haven't had with Metroid Prime 3 (my only real complaint with Metroid is that I have to keep the Wiimote pointed at the screen).
I'm posting because your argument deserves a reply. I completely agree with you. I do wonder, however, if Channel Intelligence is just a dummy corporation for one of the large corporations they aren't suing. Or worse, they, like SCO, might be a puppet organization.
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If only more people (speaking universally, not regarding any specific group of people) took this stance. There might be less crime, corruption, hatred, etc. in the world.
Curious point.
I work in tech support, and just the other day one of my co-workers had a call from someone who apparently didn't even know what a mouse was; she spent at least fifteen minutes trying to get the customer to understand what he needed to do to right-click. I don't believe he was using the mouse as a foot pedal, but that is still an extremely amusing anecdote, in my opinion.
Actually, Lindon measures about four and a half miles from East to West and roughly one and a half miles from North to South; the East border is sort of diagonal, and the North border of Orem (the city immediately to its south, which is where I live) pushes into Lindon a little in a few places, so it's difficult to be more precise in the measurements. Of course, that doesn't make your statement any less true.
I agree very much with your point. Personally, I thought the decision to not use Hardware Acceleration for the graphics was a very bad idea on Microsoft's part; that's one of the things that makes Aqua/Quartz so fast.
While what you say about the 6502 family is true (the C64 used a 6510), there are a few other factors I feel you are not giving appropriate credit to. First of all, the C64's RAM operated at the same speed as the CPU itself (it was actually rated for faster speeds) so there was no memory bottleneck as on modern machines, and all but a very few instructions required the use of RAM in some form. Secondly, I've seen the code on the C64 for floating point (it's in the CBM BASIC interpreter, and can now be researched by anyone who understands the 6502's architecture), and only the more complex FP operations required hundreds, or thousands, of cycles to perform. Multiplication was actually handled in the simplest means possible, so any random multiplication operation could be handled in a few hundred cycles.
Excellent post, but were you referring to Microsoft rather than Apple; I'm not aware of any lawsuits Apple's threatened/initiated lately? I'm aware of several threats Ballmer's made, such as the 800 some odd patents he believes Linux is violating.
I know what you mean, though to be honest, I've never noticed a significant problem with my swap file; I use menu meters to track my overall memory usage, and I'm rarely finding that swap is being heavily used. At present, only 447 MB is in use, but I'm only running Firefox and Mail (and Finder, of course). I've noticed in the past, when I used Windows for a regular OS, that it often seemed to demand loads of swap memory for no explicable reason. I now use Windows on a virtual machine, and I still notice frequent hard drive use while it is running that I don't notice when it is not.
Well stated. It's nice to read a well reasoned, politely stated comment, particularly one that does not ridicule another statement that is well meaning, but not quite as carefully crafted.
Not that malicious; it didn't touch the contents of main memory, except for the first byte of BASIC.
Actually, the Commodore 64 had an extensive API (research the C64 KERNEL). Of course, a modern interpreter may not actually need to use that API, since they have their own, but the Commodore 64's was probably one of the most powerful APIs of its day. Anyone who programmed in assembly, as I did, and still do, to some extent, today, quickly learned this.
Also, the actual CBM BASIC interpreter was about 9.25K, not 8K; there was the A000-BFFF BASIC ROM, which contained most of the interpreter, and in the KERNEL ROM (which occupied E000-FFFF), the BASIC interpreter occupied from E000 to approximately E500 (my memory of exactly where this ended is a little fuzzy, but the KERNEL began at around that point).
Yes, that is exactly what you'd get.
As I said, those several hundred pages weren't really worth anything. Easily replaced with something far better.
I've had WordPerfect crash, and I've lost information because of it, even several hundred pages once (though I think that may have been, in part, XPs fault; the version of WordPerfect I'm using is the 2000 version and XP doesn't seem to get along very well with it). None of what I lost was all that important, though, so, though I was disappointed at the time, I wasn't too unhappy.
The most important reason I use WordPerfect, however is that it's feature rich unlike any other word processor I've ever used; I can do dozens of things easily without much hassle, including multiple things that no other word processor is capable of (such as change the format of the entire document simply by putting the cursor at the top and applying changes, no selection necessary), and the editing features (the biggest is Reveal Codes) make document composition easy and efficient.
I really wish Corel would stop pandering to Microsoft and make a real Linux or Mac OS version, or sell it to someone who would turn it back into a top contender for Word (the only reason WordPerfect fell behind Word in the first place was the first Windows port (after Novell bought the product, if I remember right) was absolutely atrocious).
Regardless, I've never seen gedit crash, not that I use it particularly often, though it does get used on occasion; I'm not a programmer and I prefer a Word Processor for any serious writing (I use WordPerfect).
I'd ask for a copy of that, but my guess is it's probably unfit for human consumption.
Well said. And nice that you managed it without bringing in an automotive example into the mix.
As for your McCain comment in the original post. I agree as far as McCain alone is concerned, but I'd argue that there are basically the same major problems with the Obama campaign as well; his seems to create the illusion he can help with no substantive backing, and does just as little to unite the country.
Joe Biden hasn't helped any, with his comments like when he said President Franklin Roosevelt got on TV after the 1929 stock market crash, or his accusations during the vice presidential debates claiming deregulation caused our current financial crisis (congress and the Federal Reserve caused the problem, despite what wall street analysts claim).
I'd prefer a candidate whose message is one of genuine hope, not just change for the sake of change.
Sorry about the off topic post.
Just to confirm your suspicions, there is; WordPerfect has had this feature since its inception (it's been around since the eighties).
In all of the DOS versions, PgUp and PgDn always took you to the top of the previous and next pages respectively (or the top of the document if you were already on the first, or the bottom of the document if you were already on the last).
In Windows, these features are still there, but you hold Ctrl with PgUp and PgDn to use them.
Just some of them? Okay, I'll admit that I have the advantage of having tinkered with 6502 via emulator, so I have almost all of them memorized. 00: BRK, 01: ORA (zp,x), 05: ORA (zp), 06: ASL (zp), etc. And no, I didn't grab these off of a website somewhere; as I said, I remember almost everything.
Just checked Wikipedia; the Vic-20 had a 22x23 resolution.
You ought to be modded up for this; that video is very good. Thanks for the link.
To bad no one bothered to respond so you could see how many people can identify the name of the episode this comes from.
I know the name of the episode, and I suppose you do, too, so I'm not going to mention it here.
I agree completely. In fact, the United States is not a democracy at all; the method we use to elect a president should make that perfectly clear, let alone statements made by founding fathers such as Benjamin Franklin (who said something to the effect of "You have a republic, if you can keep it").
Unfortunately, far too many people want the "general welfare" clause in the preamble of the constitution to mean something that it was never intended to (that clause is specifically the welfare of the nation as a whole, not of the people individually).
What? Are you saying IE6 is that good? I just don't think Neanderthals would be impressed by IE6.
Agreed. Metroid Prime 3's controls are the best FPS controls I've ever used; if only they'd made Twilight Princess take advantage of more of the Wii's unique capabilities. I've enjoyed the Wii version of Twilight Princess, but there have been many annoyances that I haven't had with Metroid Prime 3 (my only real complaint with Metroid is that I have to keep the Wiimote pointed at the screen).
I'm posting because your argument deserves a reply. I completely agree with you. I do wonder, however, if Channel Intelligence is just a dummy corporation for one of the large corporations they aren't suing. Or worse, they, like SCO, might be a puppet organization.