Now called z/OS, it is still popular too, mostly as the backend to all those OS/2 ATMs. However, neither will see a resurgence. The PC market is 'mature' and will not have room for another general purpose OS. The future of operating system is in the mobile device, then in dedicated purpose devices such as cars, appliances, and gadgets.
OS/2 was a basterd child. I had the first OS/2 developers kit. It cost $3,000, had no GUI (PM came later), and wouldn't compile "Hello World." The day after I got the SDK, I drove from SF to Seattle to attend the first OS/2 developers' conference at the Westin. Balmer was there but Gates was not. I wondered why the head geek did not show up for such a "big event." Now we all know why.
The Apollo moon missions launched us into the 1970s, not exactly the boom years of the American economy or culture. There was Watergate, Vietnam, stagflation, Arab Oil embargo, and 55MPH freeways. I think there was more hope and higher morale getting to the moon in the 1960s. 1969 might have been the best year in my memory - from the Jets upsetting the Colts in the SuperBowl to the Beatles last public appearance and Abbey Road release to the first 747 flight to People's Park to Woodstock to the creation of ARPAnet and UNIX to the first and second moon landings. Since then, it has been pretty downhill, frankly.
Research Triangle, Austin, Irvine . . . I don't think you can copy this culture. Bangalore comes the closest but actually got started in the 1970s, before Silicon Valley was the model. Everybody here is from somewhere else, including Russia. Where inside Russia could you draw that kind of international crowd?
What does this mean - "a moral obligation to their shareholders"? And what the hell is this - "do they have an ethical obligation"? I thought we were talking about companies. The part the makes perfect sense -- "devil's advocate." The biggest laugh - "new morality for companies and corporations." The reality -- Corporation, "if you cut me, do I not bleed?" Uh, no. Corporation, "what if I lay down my employees like cannon fodder? Do I not bleed?" Uh, no, but those people you sacrificed do. Corporation, "well, have you no sympathy for an soulless entity that is designed only for its own perpetuation with no regard for anything that it might perceive as an obstacle?" Uh, no.
A classic case of "no good deed goes unpunished" such as this often leads to the logical conclusion - use the crack to pillage the vendor. The vendor is destroyed, the "do-gooder" is handsomely rewarded, and somebody writes a book about it and gets royalties from the movie staring Sandra Bullock, who is aptly cast (see "The Net" & "Demolition Man") and could use the diversion.
In a way, he may have a harder time that you think. At Sun, he could pretty much do as he pleased. There aren't many openings for "do as you please." Google or IBM might actually want him to be "one of the team." Think he still wants to be a "team player?" He might prefer to start his own team. I would.
The Huns wore silk to protect themselves in battle. There were no bullets back then, just arrows and blades. While the arrows could still penetrate the flesh, they often did not cut through the silk which made it easier to remove the arrows and stem the bleeding. BTW, like tee-shirts, silk is imprintable -- "We're on the run, we're lotta fun, we are the Huns!"
Religious dogma aside, this Big Bang theory seems dated. The idea that the Universe might be finite has been challenged and, frankly, seems less likely as more is learned about quantum gravity and string theory. I am of the mind that there may have been a bang, perhaps many, but not just one big one. As some are monotheistic and others are polytheistic, I rebuke one big bang and claim to believe in many bangs. Just like thinking we are the only ones in the Universe, I doubt if this vastness could only come from one, 15-billion-year-old bang. Way beyond 15 billion light years might be a fireworks of bigger and better bangs. Our perspective is much too small to rule it out this soon.
As for evolution, I have questions as to its accuracy. For example, I think it is more likely that apes ascended from man. Evolution does not necessarily lead out of the jungle and into a Burger King.
I just read his chat with Murray. He is very candid, though sometimes predictably misleading. He can be this way because he knows that his company, and therefore its leader, is untouchable. He was candid about healthcare, essentially saying that the employees were going to pay for it one way or the other. He let his customers know that they are not customers, just subscribers to the service of an unregulated monopoly, and they should not use "too much" of the service lest they be dealt with by the Company.
Verizon is two mergers away from being THE national communications monopoly, and I could tell that he can taste it. The power of acting with impunity, controlling human communication, making money any way that the company chooses, deciding what is 'right' and 'wrong' with the way an industry is run -- all that is quite the aphrodisiac, like Tiger Woods trapped on an island with all the Victoria Secret models. Who could resist? I suspect Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer had similar feelings. After all they are only human.
This DA really knows how to get onto SlashDot, eh? As for contraceptives, all true fundamentalists know that we have too many people on this planet and genocide has never been an effective solution. So, we gotta cut this off at the source. Frankly, it would be a lot easier just to neuter them. Works for pets, and they are better behaved too. Anyway, we come THIS CLOSE to getting the job done with the circumcision, a couple more nips on the little nipper should be a no brainer. Then, there is no more need for sex education, VDs, or even fundamentalists telling everyone not to have sex. As for perpetuation of humanity, well that seems overrated anyway.
C has become the English of computer languages. There are so many derivatives - C++, C#, 'Objective-C', Java, and all those other web scripting languages like Actionscript and PHP -- that I can't even keep track of them all. Their syntax are so similar, yet their libraries are from different planets. As for K&R's C, it is probably like the Queen's English - rarely spoken well and often slurred.
Remember when languages really looked different - COBOL, PL/1, Fortran, Lisp? I date myself.
East Palo Alto was the first city to have complete coverage. They say it has helped reduce shootings. It is also helping to resolve a mystery regarding a plane crash - http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/audio-of-tesla-plane-crash-may-help-in-determining-cause/ . I knew the pilot, who was extraordinarily careful about flying his plane and had flown out of Palo Alto airport hundreds of times. We suspect he lost his left engine during takeoff and was pulled left into the power lines (normal procedure is to veer right towards the bay). These audio recordings might determine what happened.
I heard that it will have a 12 inch screen that rolls up into a 3" diameter so you can stick it in your pants. Nerds finally get a toy that impresses the ladies. Did I mention that when the phone is set to vibrate . . .
In some states, the legislative wording is so broad that masturbating under the age of 18 is "sex involving a minor." Of course, that would mean the whole state could go to jail and be forever listed as sex offenders. Maybe Justice is blind because it beat-off too much.
It seems ironic that women of higher learning who might, as some suggest, fund their education from their ovaries, would need to go to a fertility clinic after their successful education and careers that kept them way from the maternity ward until their 30s or 40s.
It is sensible not to worry about something you cannot control. Comparing Flash to HTML5 is like comparing Windows to POSIX. You don't make money on standards; the money is in the products that may use them.
Anyone ever figure out why they picked the name 'Bob'? Why not 'Paul' or 'Bill' or 'Steve'? There has got to be a story behind it, like 'Google'. When Google was founded, the president of Yahoo was Tim Koogle.
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Now called z/OS, it is still popular too, mostly as the backend to all those OS/2 ATMs. However, neither will see a resurgence. The PC market is 'mature' and will not have room for another general purpose OS. The future of operating system is in the mobile device, then in dedicated purpose devices such as cars, appliances, and gadgets.
OS/2 was a basterd child. I had the first OS/2 developers kit. It cost $3,000, had no GUI (PM came later), and wouldn't compile "Hello World." The day after I got the SDK, I drove from SF to Seattle to attend the first OS/2 developers' conference at the Westin. Balmer was there but Gates was not. I wondered why the head geek did not show up for such a "big event." Now we all know why.
The Apollo moon missions launched us into the 1970s, not exactly the boom years of the American economy or culture. There was Watergate, Vietnam, stagflation, Arab Oil embargo, and 55MPH freeways. I think there was more hope and higher morale getting to the moon in the 1960s. 1969 might have been the best year in my memory - from the Jets upsetting the Colts in the SuperBowl to the Beatles last public appearance and Abbey Road release to the first 747 flight to People's Park to Woodstock to the creation of ARPAnet and UNIX to the first and second moon landings. Since then, it has been pretty downhill, frankly.
Research Triangle, Austin, Irvine . . . I don't think you can copy this culture. Bangalore comes the closest but actually got started in the 1970s, before Silicon Valley was the model. Everybody here is from somewhere else, including Russia. Where inside Russia could you draw that kind of international crowd?
How about an adult version of this --
http://www.amazon.com/Nutcracker-Classic-Collectible-Pop-Up/dp/0689832850/ref=cm_lmf_tit_7
What does this mean - "a moral obligation to their shareholders"? And what the hell is this - "do they have an ethical obligation"? I thought we were talking about companies. The part the makes perfect sense -- "devil's advocate." The biggest laugh - "new morality for companies and corporations." The reality -- Corporation, "if you cut me, do I not bleed?" Uh, no. Corporation, "what if I lay down my employees like cannon fodder? Do I not bleed?" Uh, no, but those people you sacrificed do. Corporation, "well, have you no sympathy for an soulless entity that is designed only for its own perpetuation with no regard for anything that it might perceive as an obstacle?" Uh, no.
A classic case of "no good deed goes unpunished" such as this often leads to the logical conclusion - use the crack to pillage the vendor. The vendor is destroyed, the "do-gooder" is handsomely rewarded, and somebody writes a book about it and gets royalties from the movie staring Sandra Bullock, who is aptly cast (see "The Net" & "Demolition Man") and could use the diversion.
In a way, he may have a harder time that you think. At Sun, he could pretty much do as he pleased. There aren't many openings for "do as you please." Google or IBM might actually want him to be "one of the team." Think he still wants to be a "team player?" He might prefer to start his own team. I would.
The Huns wore silk to protect themselves in battle. There were no bullets back then, just arrows and blades. While the arrows could still penetrate the flesh, they often did not cut through the silk which made it easier to remove the arrows and stem the bleeding. BTW, like tee-shirts, silk is imprintable -- "We're on the run, we're lotta fun, we are the Huns!"
I thought that Theora fell under the cloud of the last of the submarine patents -- http://daringfireball.net/2010/03/on_submarine_patents.
Religious dogma aside, this Big Bang theory seems dated. The idea that the Universe might be finite has been challenged and, frankly, seems less likely as more is learned about quantum gravity and string theory. I am of the mind that there may have been a bang, perhaps many, but not just one big one. As some are monotheistic and others are polytheistic, I rebuke one big bang and claim to believe in many bangs. Just like thinking we are the only ones in the Universe, I doubt if this vastness could only come from one, 15-billion-year-old bang. Way beyond 15 billion light years might be a fireworks of bigger and better bangs. Our perspective is much too small to rule it out this soon.
As for evolution, I have questions as to its accuracy. For example, I think it is more likely that apes ascended from man. Evolution does not necessarily lead out of the jungle and into a Burger King.
All great humor is rooted in truth.
I just read his chat with Murray. He is very candid, though sometimes predictably misleading. He can be this way because he knows that his company, and therefore its leader, is untouchable. He was candid about healthcare, essentially saying that the employees were going to pay for it one way or the other. He let his customers know that they are not customers, just subscribers to the service of an unregulated monopoly, and they should not use "too much" of the service lest they be dealt with by the Company.
Verizon is two mergers away from being THE national communications monopoly, and I could tell that he can taste it. The power of acting with impunity, controlling human communication, making money any way that the company chooses, deciding what is 'right' and 'wrong' with the way an industry is run -- all that is quite the aphrodisiac, like Tiger Woods trapped on an island with all the Victoria Secret models. Who could resist? I suspect Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer had similar feelings. After all they are only human.
This DA really knows how to get onto SlashDot, eh? As for contraceptives, all true fundamentalists know that we have too many people on this planet and genocide has never been an effective solution. So, we gotta cut this off at the source. Frankly, it would be a lot easier just to neuter them. Works for pets, and they are better behaved too. Anyway, we come THIS CLOSE to getting the job done with the circumcision, a couple more nips on the little nipper should be a no brainer. Then, there is no more need for sex education, VDs, or even fundamentalists telling everyone not to have sex. As for perpetuation of humanity, well that seems overrated anyway.
C has become the English of computer languages. There are so many derivatives - C++, C#, 'Objective-C', Java, and all those other web scripting languages like Actionscript and PHP -- that I can't even keep track of them all. Their syntax are so similar, yet their libraries are from different planets. As for K&R's C, it is probably like the Queen's English - rarely spoken well and often slurred.
Remember when languages really looked different - COBOL, PL/1, Fortran, Lisp? I date myself.
East Palo Alto was the first city to have complete coverage. They say it has helped reduce shootings. It is also helping to resolve a mystery regarding a plane crash - http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/audio-of-tesla-plane-crash-may-help-in-determining-cause/ . I knew the pilot, who was extraordinarily careful about flying his plane and had flown out of Palo Alto airport hundreds of times. We suspect he lost his left engine during takeoff and was pulled left into the power lines (normal procedure is to veer right towards the bay). These audio recordings might determine what happened.
They are just afraid that someone with a submarine patent is going to sue them if they use it. They are probably right.
Open the fucking window, Hal!
I heard that it will have a 12 inch screen that rolls up into a 3" diameter so you can stick it in your pants. Nerds finally get a toy that impresses the ladies. Did I mention that when the phone is set to vibrate . . .
Me too, they had my balls under a restraining order since puberty.
In some states, the legislative wording is so broad that masturbating under the age of 18 is "sex involving a minor." Of course, that would mean the whole state could go to jail and be forever listed as sex offenders. Maybe Justice is blind because it beat-off too much.
How can you equate a woman's ova to HAMBURGER!?!?! Such a simile. Caviar would be an appropriate metaphor, say Beluga verses Sevruga.
It seems ironic that women of higher learning who might, as some suggest, fund their education from their ovaries, would need to go to a fertility clinic after their successful education and careers that kept them way from the maternity ward until their 30s or 40s.
Perhaps 'buttonhole' is a better fit for this Anonymous Coward. Think "quantum physics."
It is sensible not to worry about something you cannot control. Comparing Flash to HTML5 is like comparing Windows to POSIX. You don't make money on standards; the money is in the products that may use them.
Anyone ever figure out why they picked the name 'Bob'? Why not 'Paul' or 'Bill' or 'Steve'? There has got to be a story behind it, like 'Google'. When Google was founded, the president of Yahoo was Tim Koogle.