Thank you! I never knew that there was an Eye Doctor market, and I've been wondering what market is ripe for our company to move into. Don't worry, we'll let you have 1% of the market - if you're nice to us. Oh.. the BSA want's to talk to you.
-Bill
PS: Don't you dare GPL your software, that make Steve mad!
European, and particulary Scandinavian, Socialism is a bit differewnt than American Socialism. European sytle, is socialism amung eaquels - were most people are hard working and smart. American soclaimism is where the stupid and lazy sponge off the hard working.
I would not gruge the European style, but I can tell you from experience, the American style sucks. Especially if you're part of the working class.
The clones were older powerpc based - however they we all going to transition to G3 sooner rather than later, some even went so far as to inclue a G3 daughter card inorder to get around Apples obnoxious legal department. here for more info.
Not only that, but MOT had it's own Mac clone that got squashed - though it was a small endevour compaired to the roumoured G3 ramp up.
Instead of Cygwin and Xfree to run a Unix app on a Windows (I love saying this..) dumb-terminal, use VNC! A VNC-server will read the user setup file for xwindows and create a virtual desktop using the windows manager settings of the setup file - this is where the clever bit comes in. Create your own window manager that does one and only one thing: run you specified app full screen.
Create a vnc schortcut on your windows decktop, label it "Ximian" and when when clicked, all the user sees is "Ximian" - it just happens to be Ximian funnign full screen on a VNC X-Windows desktop.
Roumour is, is that MOT is still pissed about the "Mac Clone" fiacso - they were expecting for a huge increase of G3 production due to more and diferent Macs being sold, and invested accordingly. Apple killed that dream, and MOT hasen't been too eager to invest in anthing Apple needs.
Just a roumour thogh. File it away in the round-file.
Your correct, there are many decent familes that have raied a large, inteligent and thoughfull families. And yes, there are a lot of spoiled-little-brats raised by yuppie dual-income families that are more worried about their BMW payemnt than their child's future.
I didn't meany to disparage the families that do it right. But on balance, large familes *are* more difficult to raise, and hence should probably not be the norm considering the fact that there are already 5.5 Billion people on this earth.
When I was young, I use the moan about the plight of the poor in America. They were beaten, down-trodden, and rejected. O woe was them.
Then I happed to have the oppertunity to meet a young man from Vietnam that made his way to America. (After being tourtuted) He diden't speek any english at the time, and had no money to his name.
By working hard, studying english, and not buying stupid things (druges, fancy cars, expensive getto-ware, alcohol, TV) he's became quite sucuessfull, married and has two beautifull, inteligent, children. He never talked about his past problems - and only after we became close friends would he mention the torture he endured. He is a brave person.
*then it hit me*
Jesus, fucking christ! If one gets thier housing paid for, food paid for, education paid for - and *still* can't make it in America - than one deserves to FUCKING STARVE TO DEATH. Painfully. As an example to the other fuck-wits out there.
If some short, illiterate, pain-ridden, destitute boat-person can do it, thean the fuckers that constantly drain this country of tax money, sympathy, and government-cheese can do it.
In short, I save my sympathyes for people like my friends, and not the lazy whiners.
And in retrospect - I realied that I has grown up in a poor house. The sewer backed up into the basement - thick rich poop and urine had to be cleaned every three months during the rainy season. Any yet, I don't care. But you can bet your bottom doller that all the fuck-heads in section 8 housing would be cring "opression" the soon as their tax-payer funded housing even dripped one peice of poop onto their crack-stash.
Personally, I think America should do a bit better job handing out opertunity, and not free-food and housing. If we took the money we waste on the lazy and put it into free higher-education, we'd be a lot better off.
All environmental problems stem from human over-population. More mouths = more food consumed, more housing, more roads, more SUV etc.
Even worse, there are superstitions that encourage this abuse - Catholoism, Momronism, and Socialism* are the ones I'm familiar with.
A family of 6 in *not* a beautifull thing - on a physics level, they are increasing the entropy of the universe, and on an environmental level is a disaster. On a sociological level, each child won't get the attention they need to thrive in modern socioty.
*Modern Socialism encourages over-breading by burdening the producers of wealth with taxes, and transfering that wealth to the lazy and stupid. The lazy and stupid, for some reason, breed more than normal.
If your motivation sucks...work around it!
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If you can't stand the though of sloggin out a jog every two days, or getting you little arms into the stinky gym - do somthing fun that just happens to have excercise component.
Here, in the Northwest US - you can hike trails, climb rocks,kyayak, scuba dive, bicycle in the counry, hang-glide, climb mountains and wind surf. You could also go splunking, paint-balling, mountain biking and sky-diving. If you're still have high-school ambitions - team 'sports' are considered fun by some people
Do somthing fun, and motivations won't be a problem. You coulden't get me to jog every day, but any one of the above and I'm there.
What about when she saves a file as "Letter.txt" when there's already "letter.TXT" in the directory?
The Gui should politly as her for a diferent name.
All OS level tools and services expect diferent names to be, well..., diferent. This is correct behaviour. If a particular application has users that can't handle this behaviour, then the application itself should deal with it.
And, thats assuming that people are too suupid to make the disctinction that "Letter.txt" is diferent than "lETTER.TXT" - I don't make that assumption about my users and they are happy. Maby, I've just gotten lucky to have useres with an IQ greater than a worm.
I've always deplored the way GUI designers attempt to hide difficult aspects of computing with gloss - "My Documents" and "My Network Places" get in the way of undrestanding and mastery. They look good in theory, because the GUI concepts help a new user - but the cause all sorts of brain damage down the road. The poor user starts to think that there are two places where their documents are stored - c:\documents and crap\users\some hidious directory\user #2\my documents" and "My Documents".
Evil.
My useres are happy to know that their documents are "/home/user/" Bing. Done. End of story. Takes ten seconds to explain, and dosen't cause a headache.
It is feasable for Apple to put a Pentium on it's motherboards as a co-processor. The extra prossessor could get used by apps that need another floating point unit. Normall, non processor-intensive apps could just ignore it.
It would be a stupid hack, but woulden't require any recompiles for curent apps and gould get rid of the 'MHZ Myth' once and for all.
Of course this would be non-elegent, and mostly for marketing reasons.
That's why I make a distinction between 'Criminal Prisoners' and plain ol' 'Prisoners.' You and I probably disagree on what a true crime is, but we both can agree that there are a lot of people in prison who don't belong there. Most pot-heads and prostitues don't need to be in prison for example.
What bugs me is that is costs -$40,000 a year in taxpayer money to house a pedophile. We should be working that pehophile so hard that their work causes a net contribution into the tax coffers. If they refuse to work, then they should starve. Just like the rest of us.
A neet thing about colonisieng space too is that if some nutball decided to take out the world with a bang, that at least there's hope for humanity.
Unfortunaly, it's easier to colonise the open seas than space right now - hopefully things will change soon. Working fusion reactors would help a lot right now..
My main complaint with over-breading, is that all or our environmental and scocial problems stem, mostly, from overpopulation. It's bad enough that people are breading like bacteria, but the class of people that expect me to *pay* for them to over-bread really piss me off. As if their little crack baby is a blessing to this world.
Once the little vermen are in the world - I do think we should shower them with education, prosperity and opertunity. It's the only chance we have to stop the cycle of stupidity, squalor and greed.
That's why I made a distinction between prisioner of stupid laws, and a 'criminal prisoner'. We're an odd socioty - we criminialise silly things (pot, prostitition) and we give free reign to evil people (murderers and theives). It's a unjust socioty that imprissones a pot-head longer than the CEO of Enron: you'll get longer time for making love for money then running down a family with an SUV.
And to add fuel to the fire - by definition all new ideas are proposed by amateurs. It's only after things have setteled down, do the professionals stands atop the pioneers and pronouce themselves clever.
Icarus has been flying around NJ again? I though the aliens told him to stay around Utah, or they'd 'probe' him again. Mormons don't seem to mind the wax and fethers - probably use them in their fertility rites.
The Gnomes-Of-Bavaira are now taking LIGHT! the precious essence of HUMANITY! and turning it into RAW! movement. When will their madness end. Please for the children, write you member of congress - we need to develop our own devices, and can't let the Krouts get ahead of us again! Notify you're friends in the 51st state up North - especially if you can speak the French. Let's hope Jolly Ol' England can survive long enough for us to help her keep her innocence intact from the RAW! THRUSTING! German light-to-movment-power DEVICES!
I agree on principal - that yes, there is a lot of wasted efford with the rift between the KDE and Gnome teams, however - I think the competition is benificial in that they have both made tremendous strides in a short amount of time. Perhaps, competition is doing a good job of motivating both teams.
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Thank you! I never knew that there was an Eye Doctor market, and I've been wondering what market is ripe for our company to move into. Don't worry, we'll let you have 1% of the market - if you're nice to us. Oh.. the BSA want's to talk to you.
-Bill
PS: Don't you dare GPL your software, that make Steve mad!
European, and particulary Scandinavian, Socialism is a bit differewnt than American Socialism. European sytle, is socialism amung eaquels - were most people are hard working and smart. American soclaimism is where the stupid and lazy sponge off the hard working.
I would not gruge the European style, but I can tell you from experience, the American style sucks. Especially if you're part of the working class.
You're quite correct,
.
The clones were older powerpc based - however they we all going to transition to G3 sooner rather than later, some even went so far as to inclue a G3 daughter card inorder to get around Apples obnoxious legal department. here for more info
Not only that, but MOT had it's own Mac clone that got squashed - though it was a small endevour compaired to the roumoured G3 ramp up.
more info.
according to the article, this move my apple cost MOT $95 million, who knows how much monet MOT wased on G3?
Instead of Cygwin and Xfree to run a Unix app on a Windows (I love saying this..) dumb-terminal, use VNC! A VNC-server will read the user setup file for xwindows and create a virtual desktop using the windows manager settings of the setup file - this is where the clever bit comes in. Create your own window manager that does one and only one thing: run you specified app full screen.
Create a vnc schortcut on your windows decktop, label it "Ximian" and when when clicked, all the user sees is "Ximian" - it just happens to be Ximian funnign full screen on a VNC X-Windows desktop.
Roumour is, is that MOT is still pissed about the "Mac Clone" fiacso - they were expecting for a huge increase of G3 production due to more and diferent Macs being sold, and invested accordingly. Apple killed that dream, and MOT hasen't been too eager to invest in anthing Apple needs.
Just a roumour thogh. File it away in the round-file.
Your correct, there are many decent familes that have raied a large, inteligent and thoughfull families. And yes, there are a lot of spoiled-little-brats raised by yuppie dual-income families that are more worried about their BMW payemnt than their child's future.
I didn't meany to disparage the families that do it right. But on balance, large familes *are* more difficult to raise, and hence should probably not be the norm considering the fact that there are already 5.5 Billion people on this earth.
correlation betewwn the socioeconomic class...
I know where you're comming from but...
When I was young, I use the moan about the plight of the poor in America. They were beaten, down-trodden, and rejected. O woe was them.
Then I happed to have the oppertunity to meet a young man from Vietnam that made his way to America. (After being tourtuted) He diden't speek any english at the time, and had no money to his name.
By working hard, studying english, and not buying stupid things (druges, fancy cars, expensive getto-ware, alcohol, TV) he's became quite sucuessfull, married and has two beautifull, inteligent, children. He never talked about his past problems - and only after we became close friends would he mention the torture he endured. He is a brave person.
*then it hit me*
Jesus, fucking christ! If one gets thier housing paid for, food paid for, education paid for - and *still* can't make it in America - than one deserves to FUCKING STARVE TO DEATH. Painfully. As an example to the other fuck-wits out there.
If some short, illiterate, pain-ridden, destitute boat-person can do it, thean the fuckers that constantly drain this country of tax money, sympathy, and government-cheese can do it.
In short, I save my sympathyes for people like my friends, and not the lazy whiners.
And in retrospect - I realied that I has grown up in a poor house. The sewer backed up into the basement - thick rich poop and urine had to be cleaned every three months during the rainy season. Any yet, I don't care. But you can bet your bottom doller that all the fuck-heads in section 8 housing would be cring "opression" the soon as their tax-payer funded housing even dripped one peice of poop onto their crack-stash.
Personally, I think America should do a bit better job handing out opertunity, and not free-food and housing. If we took the money we waste on the lazy and put it into free higher-education, we'd be a lot better off.
(cue Balmer jumpling around)
All environmental problems stem from human over-population. More mouths = more food consumed, more housing, more roads, more SUV etc.
Even worse, there are superstitions that encourage this abuse - Catholoism, Momronism, and Socialism* are the ones I'm familiar with.
A family of 6 in *not* a beautifull thing - on a physics level, they are increasing the entropy of the universe, and on an environmental level is a disaster. On a sociological level, each child won't get the attention they need to thrive in modern socioty.
*Modern Socialism encourages over-breading by burdening the producers of wealth with taxes, and transfering that wealth to the lazy and stupid. The lazy and stupid, for some reason, breed more than normal.
If you can't stand the though of sloggin out a jog every two days, or getting you little arms into the stinky gym - do somthing fun that just happens to have excercise component.
Here, in the Northwest US - you can hike trails, climb rocks,kyayak, scuba dive, bicycle in the counry, hang-glide, climb mountains and wind surf. You could also go splunking, paint-balling, mountain biking and sky-diving. If you're still have high-school ambitions - team 'sports' are considered fun by some people
Do somthing fun, and motivations won't be a problem. You coulden't get me to jog every day, but any one of the above and I'm there.
Use this - it runs Linux, has four imputs and works.
http://www.axis.com/products/cam_2460/index.htm
What about when she saves a file as "Letter.txt" when there's already "letter.TXT" in the directory?
The Gui should politly as her for a diferent name.
All OS level tools and services expect diferent names to be, well..., diferent. This is correct behaviour. If a particular application has users that can't handle this behaviour, then the application itself should deal with it.
And, thats assuming that people are too suupid to make the disctinction that "Letter.txt" is diferent than "lETTER.TXT" - I don't make that assumption about my users and they are happy. Maby, I've just gotten lucky to have useres with an IQ greater than a worm.
I've always deplored the way GUI designers attempt to hide difficult aspects of computing with gloss - "My Documents" and "My Network Places" get in the way of undrestanding and mastery. They look good in theory, because the GUI concepts help a new user - but the cause all sorts of brain damage down the road. The poor user starts to think that there are two places where their documents are stored - c:\documents and crap\users\some hidious directory\user #2\my documents" and "My Documents".
Evil.
My useres are happy to know that their documents are "/home/user/" Bing. Done. End of story. Takes ten seconds to explain, and dosen't cause a headache.
It's not like your aunt is going to use Emacs - she'll just point and click with whatever graphical software she is using.
Leave case sensitivity alone - it's the right thing to do, just hide any ease-of-use problems it may introduce with a GUI.
That keeps the smart people happy, and the dumb people happy. We're all happy!
Sounds reasonable! Too bad you're not running for office - all the reasonable people stay out of politics, it the insane ones that think it's fun. ;)
It is feasable for Apple to put a Pentium on it's motherboards as a co-processor. The extra prossessor could get used by apps that need another floating point unit. Normall, non processor-intensive apps could just ignore it.
It would be a stupid hack, but woulden't require any recompiles for curent apps and gould get rid of the 'MHZ Myth' once and for all.
Of course this would be non-elegent, and mostly for marketing reasons.
You'll have to wait for a lot of ignorant people to die before fusion gets the funding it needs.
;)
Well, thats easy! We just set up giant pits filled with spikes - put a few signs around stating "Warning, Giant Pit Filled With Spikes. Stay Away!"
All rational people will take a look, shrug, and back away - the stupid will, of course, fall in.
That's why I make a distinction between 'Criminal Prisoners' and plain ol' 'Prisoners.' You and I probably disagree on what a true crime is, but we both can agree that there are a lot of people in prison who don't belong there. Most pot-heads and prostitues don't need to be in prison for example.
What bugs me is that is costs -$40,000 a year in taxpayer money to house a pedophile. We should be working that pehophile so hard that their work causes a net contribution into the tax coffers. If they refuse to work, then they should starve. Just like the rest of us.
The best thing about Firebird/Interbase is that's its easy to wean an app away from MS Acciess. Here's as typical progresstion:
Access Front/Access(Jet) Backend
Access Front/Firebird with ODBC Backend
Delphi or CBuilder Front/Firebird Backend
Delphi or CBuilder Front/PostgreSQL Backend
Kylix Front/PostgreSQL Backend
App Server Running Kylix and VNC Front/PostgreSQL
A neet thing about colonisieng space too is that if some nutball decided to take out the world with a bang, that at least there's hope for humanity.
Unfortunaly, it's easier to colonise the open seas than space right now - hopefully things will change soon. Working fusion reactors would help a lot right now..
My main complaint with over-breading, is that all or our environmental and scocial problems stem, mostly, from overpopulation. It's bad enough that people are breading like bacteria, but the class of people that expect me to *pay* for them to over-bread really piss me off. As if their little crack baby is a blessing to this world.
Once the little vermen are in the world - I do think we should shower them with education, prosperity and opertunity. It's the only chance we have to stop the cycle of stupidity, squalor and greed.
Sombody's been reading a bit too much Chomsky.
But hey, if you like the stuipd, lazy and criminal - then keep at it. You're doing a pretty good job at the first.
As for over-breeders beeing in 'need' - thats false. They are gready to over-breed and expect everybody else to pay the bill.
This will really piss you off - I *enjoy* giving money to Planned Parenthood. I know every doller I spend will save me money in the long run.
You posted AC because the label fit.
That's why I made a distinction between prisioner of stupid laws, and a 'criminal prisoner'. We're an odd socioty - we criminialise silly things (pot, prostitition) and we give free reign to evil people (murderers and theives). It's a unjust socioty that imprissones a pot-head longer than the CEO of Enron: you'll get longer time for making love for money then running down a family with an SUV.
And to add fuel to the fire - by definition all new ideas are proposed by amateurs. It's only after things have setteled down, do the professionals stands atop the pioneers and pronouce themselves clever.
Icarus has been flying around NJ again? I though the aliens told him to stay around Utah, or they'd 'probe' him again. Mormons don't seem to mind the wax and fethers - probably use them in their fertility rites.
The Gnomes-Of-Bavaira are now taking LIGHT! the precious essence of HUMANITY! and turning it into RAW! movement. When will their madness end. Please for the children, write you member of congress - we need to develop our own devices, and can't let the Krouts get ahead of us again! Notify you're friends in the 51st state up North - especially if you can speak the French. Let's hope Jolly Ol' England can survive long enough for us to help her keep her innocence intact from the RAW! THRUSTING! German light-to-movment-power DEVICES!
I agree on principal - that yes, there is a lot of wasted efford with the rift between the KDE and Gnome teams, however - I think the competition is benificial in that they have both made tremendous strides in a short amount of time. Perhaps, competition is doing a good job of motivating both teams.