Not precisely. Carnegie was big into philanthropy (Carnegie Institute of Technology, libraries everywhere.) The only catch was for a neighborhood to get a library or other resources, they had get rid of their union. (Something about being a partner with US Steel, instead of fighting them.) Sly and effective.
Are you kidding!? Linux on the desktop is all about masturbatory visual noise one-upping. When I think of "obsession with appearance to a destructive end" I think if nothing but Linux.
Don't get me wrong, I like Linux, but I'm always startled by the complete obsession with themes and skins by a community that is supposedly all about slick functionality.
The attentive observer will note that one of the major features of the NeXTDimension was 8 bits of alpha in addition to 24 bit color. That was in 1991 or 1992, IIRC.
The color NeXTstations had 16bpp color and 4bpp alpha.
Though that could not be applied through the WindowServer to individual windows (as in OS X), it was there all along.
I was working on a project with someone recently. He was being annoying about my style being too rigorous, so I implemented all of the IO stuff in COBOL and sent it to him. He didn't complain after that. (There's a nice little COBOL compiler for Linux, TinyCobol.)
In an ideal world I'd not have to work and my high-speed Internet access would be free.
I actually trust the government enough to not worry about them having my secrets. They probably already do. And my life isn't any worse.
Of course, if something along the line of these secret military tribunals is implemented, I might be more concerned. But when they actually pay attention to the Constitution, and things that impact my life are in the open (court, records, taxes, etc.), I'm pretty satisfied.
Just because you're all about scientific programming and [genuflecting] are smart enough to do it, doesn't mean that you're better.
You probably couldn't use all the money you don't earn without VB programmers making your online banking page work, or providing you with support when you deign it necessary to lower yourself and call a tech support line. Or (horror!) have deal with the ignorant masses that work at the 7-11 and give you the ho-hos you stuff in your face while denigrating others.
(Not that I'm bitter, but four years at CMU leaves me sick of people who think they're just better because they don't have to work at 7-11.)
My opinion is that if people are going to spend that much effort to compromise my privacy, they deserve to do it. If I don't put as much effort into protecting it, I don't deserve to have it.
A design flaw that doesn't result in the entire system halting with a blue "re-insert disk" screen if I hit the completely un-managed button while the disk is still being used? I'll keep my design flaw.
And the trash paradigm is a little silly, but Mac OS X fixed that right up.
Umm...I've been using Macs for more than ten years and I can probably count on my fingers the number of times I had to use a paper clip to eject a disk. The software ejection mechanism makes button ejection look outrageously primitive. And it's been there since 1984.
I worked at a place a few years ago that was like that. They didn't watch me that closely, though, so I set myself up in a fully Unix environment and created really complicated translation layers to turn what i was doing into what the rest of the shop did. I finally got them turned onto Perl by tricking them into letting me give Java to other people. Then I made all of the support code in perl. They were stuck with it.
Heck, that machine really wasn't all that impressive, compared to a G4 with a nice Apple Cinema Display.
The box might be a little smaller, but you can get wireless peripherals and the other nine yards. Compared to a beige box, this HP thing seems pretty slick, compared to my Mac, it's, well, blue.
>Left-wing America declares War on its Civil Liberties!
I know it's off-topic (and a faux pas) to reply to someone's sig, but really!
I don't see the left wing instituting secret, Star Chamber tribunals, or asking libraries to dispose of public records. Maybe I'm missing something, but I think the right is doing a good enough job without our help.
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Copyright violation.
Icewm is pretty ugly and E makes me dizzy. In fact, twm is one of the less-offensive window managers.
That's how they pay for BBC. Better than the US approach, I think.
Not precisely. Carnegie was big into philanthropy (Carnegie Institute of Technology, libraries everywhere.) The only catch was for a neighborhood to get a library or other resources, they had get rid of their union. (Something about being a partner with US Steel, instead of fighting them.) Sly and effective.
Are you kidding!? Linux on the desktop is all about masturbatory visual noise one-upping. When I think of "obsession with appearance to a destructive end" I think if nothing but Linux.
Don't get me wrong, I like Linux, but I'm always startled by the complete obsession with themes and skins by a community that is supposedly all about slick functionality.
Uhh, you might like it better. And it isn't 'my' OS. It's Apple's OS. I read my license agreement =) I just have permission to use it.
The attentive observer will note that one of the major features of the NeXTDimension was 8 bits of alpha in addition to 24 bit color. That was in 1991 or 1992, IIRC.
The color NeXTstations had 16bpp color and 4bpp alpha.
Though that could not be applied through the WindowServer to individual windows (as in OS X), it was there all along.
Have you thought about OS X? I'm working on installing it on my 7500.
I was working on a project with someone recently. He was being annoying about my style being too rigorous, so I implemented all of the IO stuff in COBOL and sent it to him. He didn't complain after that. (There's a nice little COBOL compiler for Linux, TinyCobol.)
As I recall, when his BASIC compiler for the Altair(?) was pirated, he freaked out about how people were trying to steal money from him.
More likely his staff reads MSNBC.
In an ideal world I'd not have to work and my high-speed Internet access would be free.
I actually trust the government enough to not worry about them having my secrets. They probably already do. And my life isn't any worse.
Of course, if something along the line of these secret military tribunals is implemented, I might be more concerned. But when they actually pay attention to the Constitution, and things that impact my life are in the open (court, records, taxes, etc.), I'm pretty satisfied.
Besides, it's less stressful than being paranoid.
Alert! Alert! Intellectual elitism ahoy!
Just because you're all about scientific programming and [genuflecting] are smart enough to do it, doesn't mean that you're better.
You probably couldn't use all the money you don't earn without VB programmers making your online banking page work, or providing you with support when you deign it necessary to lower yourself and call a tech support line. Or (horror!) have deal with the ignorant masses that work at the 7-11 and give you the ho-hos you stuff in your face while denigrating others.
(Not that I'm bitter, but four years at CMU leaves me sick of people who think they're just better because they don't have to work at 7-11.)
You rule. =)
That's fantastic!
I'm very impressed.
My opinion is that if people are going to spend that much effort to compromise my privacy, they deserve to do it. If I don't put as much effort into protecting it, I don't deserve to have it.
A design flaw that doesn't result in the entire system halting with a blue "re-insert disk" screen if I hit the completely un-managed button while the disk is still being used? I'll keep my design flaw.
And the trash paradigm is a little silly, but Mac OS X fixed that right up.
Umm...I've been using Macs for more than ten years and I can probably count on my fingers the number of times I had to use a paper clip to eject a disk. The software ejection mechanism makes button ejection look outrageously primitive. And it's been there since 1984.
Troll!? I'm a strong Mac supporter, and though this wasn't entirely positive, it was hardly a troll. Grow up, people.
And in Singapore, my ass would be red.
I thought you were funny.
I worked at a place a few years ago that was like that. They didn't watch me that closely, though, so I set myself up in a fully Unix environment and created really complicated translation layers to turn what i was doing into what the rest of the shop did. I finally got them turned onto Perl by tricking them into letting me give Java to other people. Then I made all of the support code in perl. They were stuck with it.
" A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard"
My roommate just put goldfish crackers and chocolate sauce on his chicken breast.
Heck, that machine really wasn't all that impressive, compared to a G4 with a nice Apple Cinema Display.
The box might be a little smaller, but you can get wireless peripherals and the other nine yards. Compared to a beige box, this HP thing seems pretty slick, compared to my Mac, it's, well, blue.
>Left-wing America declares War on its Civil Liberties!
I know it's off-topic (and a faux pas) to reply to someone's sig, but really!
I don't see the left wing instituting secret, Star Chamber tribunals, or asking libraries to dispose of public records. Maybe I'm missing something, but I think the right is doing a good enough job without our help.
Comments about jokes are offtopic as well.