I'm guessing you have no valid arguments since you're resorting to ad hominem in the very first sentence of your reply.
Calling the kettle black, eh? It's amusing that you then dig in after the above ludicrous comment and point-by-point criticize the arguements he made.
Yes, this IS ad hominem. You need to work on your split personality where you say one thing in the first sentence of a comment and then contradict it with several drawn out paragraphs following.
Rural people tend to like their alcohol, tobacco and guns, but fear bad words and sex. You might also recognize these people as typical inhabitants of red states.
I would agree with you, to a point, except I live in a rural area of one of those 'red' states. Believe me, some of the people you see in WalMart SHOULD fear sex, if the weird ugly little runt people who trail along behind them are the outcome of sex. However, they all seem pretty regular and sexed up, hence all the ugly little runt people who trail along behind them.
I mean, to LOOK at some of those women, one doesn't have to wonder that they all get likkered up before they have sex...
A lot of people like to go and look at physical things before they buy them. And I am far happier throwing a large item in the bed of my truck and driving home with it than I would be paying someone with an expensive brown truck haul it to my house, a week after I ordered it without ever seeing the physical product.
I used to like amazon.com when it was a place with a homepage that sold you books. Now it's just a sleazeshop pushing all sorts of junk on me.
Actually, you will find that many of the same people who advocate for alcohol to remain legal also advocate that cannabis be made legal.
It's not a clear-cut world. There are even conservative groups that buy full page ads in magazines like National Review (a quite conservative US magazine) advocating the legalization of drugs.
The first person to own a slave in a European-dominated colony on the North American continent was a black man. Or, I should say, a man with dark brown skin whose ancestors came from Africa. Look it up some time.
I bought pellets for a pellet gun at WalMart, and it pulled up some sort of 'ID check' thing at the register. Which makes me wonder, because fishing lures are as hazardous as pellets for a pellet gun. Except the pellets are made of lead. And it's kind of cool that it's still possible to buy canisters of little lumps of lead at a retail store today. I suppose there are people actively working to make that impossible.
That's weird, because I bought the latest Nine Inch Nails album at WalMart. It has the usual 'rise up against the bullshit' packaging. I don't know if it is censored or not, but it seems contradictory if it is.
I didn't buy my SE/30's until long, long after there were places to casually order the tools to open them. I specifically acquired them to run NetBSD on.
buy every 'vintage' Star Wars toy/collectable I could locate, and take.... them.... all.... (are you already twitching dweebs?) out.... of.... (yes, yes, pee all over yourself...) the.... original.... packaging....
And give the toys to poor kids to play with.
A toy that never left the packaging is an unhappy toy.
Believe me, if you put up BPL in my neck of the woods, I could pump out a pretty powerful HF signal and be perfectly licensed to do so. Those power lines aren't just radiating antennas, they'll also pick up my HF signal. And since the whole BPL scheme is based on a 'live with the interference' clause, guess whose packets will end up fragmented into noise? Here's a clue: not my morse code.
Simply setting a username on your NFS client with the same UID as the user on the server allows access to all those contents of the the "chmod 700" home directory and.ssh directory.
I found this out, a few years ago, when I worked at a major medical device manufacturer. I inadvertantly stumbled onto this phenomenon when I discovered that when running Interix on my NT Box on the company network, it didn't prompt for a password (as it did when accessing network shares with plain Windows). I took a chance and set up an account on my NT Box (we all had admin access to our desktop boxes in the lab) to match that of a higher-level collegue. Viola. I had read and write access to all his files on the network.
This was on a company network which contains the source code and many other controlled documents for implantable medical devices: namely- the source code for pacemakers and implantable defibrillators.
It scared the crap out of my and I quickly CEASED doing anything like that. It was too scary to admit having done or report to 'the authorities.'
I hope they've tightened up security some since then.
The Blinking Cursor was patented by Lear-Siegler in 1973 and incorporated into their ADM-3A terminal. All derivative products using this IP are in infringement.
I think he is actually saying that because his only experience with 'older copies of windoze' is that his Ma once had a Packard-Bell 486. It came with a 'Windoze' cd installer (actually just a recovery CD) and he thinks that's all any of us ever have gotten.
I have a full retail boxed copy of Windows 1.03, have Windows 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT 3.1, NT 3.51, NT 4.0 and 2000 install media. All of which is generic and can be installed on essentially any x86 hardware with the drives to read it.
There are decent emulators to run OS9 even on my NetBSD box. If I wanted to be really, really weird I could even run BasiliskII and (probably) install OS9 on the NetBSD that I have installed on my old SE/30. It would be really, really slow, of course.
But the GP for this comment is Twitter, so the only reason IHNBT is that I have a sense of humor.
I have opened SE's, and Pluses, and SE/30's using just a long handle T-15. In fact I don't even have the long handle T-15. A long handled flat bladed screwdriver (in fact, one of the common ones most large hardware stores stock) will wedge into the splines on the torx screws on the Mac to back them out.
I have never needed any special tool once the screws are out. You just lay the Mac face down on a pillow or some padding and do a little 'heft' action and it slides open.
It's entirely within the realm of likelihood that Apple spent a good amount of effort insuring that people believe that expensive special tools are needed to open a classic Mac. Because they don't want regular people in there. The Mac was designed for 'the rest of us' so the tech elite could transfer plenty of green from them.
When I was a kid, my father brought home an IBM 5100 a few weekends for us to mess with. It included a massive tractor-fed line printer. There was one program for it that used the sound side-effects of the line printer to play the William Tell Overture. This was in about 1975. It clearly constitutes an 'Ipod Prototype' that is earlier than anything Apple produced. Why, in 1975 all that Apple Computer's founders were doing was selling dope and blueboxes to steal telephone long distance time.
Ten years ago, I would have been all hot for something I could poke around and mess with. These days, I have different hobbies and greater demands on my time.
Welcome to middle age, dude. But be careful whom and what you sell out to.
It still matters. Just might not seem like it for awhile.
Well, I will choose 'learn arcane commands' over 'click on pretty buttons' when what happens when the 'pretty buttons' are clicked is governed by not just a social misfit, but an organization of marketing types run by a crack dealer type guy for whom the only reason he isn't the captioned photo beside 'social misfit' in Wikipedia is that he has a lot of legal muscle.
Some people 'grok elegance' on different levels. I grok the elegance of the ergonomic design of my electric wire-wrap gun and an OK Industries cut-and-strip wire wrap bit.
You go ahead and 'grok the elegance' of slick shiney consumer stuff if that's your thing.
You can probably run NetBSD on either of them. But since the display is proprietary on both, you can only get to the/bin/csh (or/usr/pkg/bin/bash if you install the package) prompt by hard-wiring a VT100 terminal. Most people don't want to carry around a VT100 to connect to their cell phone with a UNIX command prompt.
(the above method is the only way of running NetBSD on certain Powerbooks)
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I'm guessing you have no valid arguments since you're resorting to ad hominem in the very first sentence of your reply.
Calling the kettle black, eh? It's amusing that you then dig in after the above ludicrous comment and point-by-point criticize the arguements he made.
Yes, this IS ad hominem. You need to work on your split personality where you say one thing in the first sentence of a comment and then contradict it with several drawn out paragraphs following.
In another set of 'other words':
Why do the people who live in 'these guys' countries want to get outta said countries and come live in the U.S.?
It's a valid point to ponder.
I liked Pornucopia. I bought it in first edition when it first came out.
I'm not as enthusiastic about his kid's books, though.
I'm angry because AMD no longer sells 8088 processors for the socket DIP40.
Rural people tend to like their alcohol, tobacco and guns, but fear bad words and sex. You might also recognize these people as typical inhabitants of red states.
I would agree with you, to a point, except I live in a rural area of one of those 'red' states. Believe me, some of the people you see in WalMart SHOULD fear sex, if the weird ugly little runt people who trail along behind them are the outcome of sex. However, they all seem pretty regular and sexed up, hence all the ugly little runt people who trail along behind them.
I mean, to LOOK at some of those women, one doesn't have to wonder that they all get likkered up before they have sex...
A lot of people like to go and look at physical things before they buy them. And I am far happier throwing a large item in the bed of my truck and driving home with it than I would be paying someone with an expensive brown truck haul it to my house, a week after I ordered it without ever seeing the physical product.
I used to like amazon.com when it was a place with a homepage that sold you books. Now it's just a sleazeshop pushing all sorts of junk on me.
Actually, you will find that many of the same people who advocate for alcohol to remain legal also advocate that cannabis be made legal.
It's not a clear-cut world. There are even conservative groups that buy full page ads in magazines like National Review (a quite conservative US magazine) advocating the legalization of drugs.
The first person to own a slave in a European-dominated colony on the North American continent was a black man. Or, I should say, a man with dark brown skin whose ancestors came from Africa. Look it up some time.
I bought pellets for a pellet gun at WalMart, and it pulled up some sort of 'ID check' thing at the register. Which makes me wonder, because fishing lures are as hazardous as pellets for a pellet gun. Except the pellets are made of lead. And it's kind of cool that it's still possible to buy canisters of little lumps of lead at a retail store today. I suppose there are people actively working to make that impossible.
That's weird, because I bought the latest Nine Inch Nails album at WalMart. It has the usual 'rise up against the bullshit' packaging. I don't know if it is censored or not, but it seems contradictory if it is.
I didn't buy my SE/30's until long, long after there were places to casually order the tools to open them. I specifically acquired them to run NetBSD on.
If I were a billionaire, I would....
buy every 'vintage' Star Wars toy/collectable I could locate, and take.... them.... all.... (are you already twitching dweebs?) out.... of.... (yes, yes, pee all over yourself...) the.... original.... packaging....
And give the toys to poor kids to play with.
A toy that never left the packaging is an unhappy toy.
Believe me, if you put up BPL in my neck of the woods, I could pump out a pretty powerful HF signal and be perfectly licensed to do so. Those power lines aren't just radiating antennas, they'll also pick up my HF signal. And since the whole BPL scheme is based on a 'live with the interference' clause, guess whose packets will end up fragmented into noise? Here's a clue: not my morse code.
I found this out, a few years ago, when I worked at a major medical device manufacturer. I inadvertantly stumbled onto this phenomenon when I discovered that when running Interix on my NT Box on the company network, it didn't prompt for a password (as it did when accessing network shares with plain Windows). I took a chance and set up an account on my NT Box (we all had admin access to our desktop boxes in the lab) to match that of a higher-level collegue. Viola. I had read and write access to all his files on the network.
This was on a company network which contains the source code and many other controlled documents for implantable medical devices: namely- the source code for pacemakers and implantable defibrillators.
It scared the crap out of my and I quickly CEASED doing anything like that. It was too scary to admit having done or report to 'the authorities.'
I hope they've tightened up security some since then.
The Blinking Cursor was patented by Lear-Siegler in 1973 and incorporated into their ADM-3A terminal. All derivative products using this IP are in infringement.
I think he is actually saying that because his only experience with 'older copies of windoze' is that his Ma once had a Packard-Bell 486. It came with a 'Windoze' cd installer (actually just a recovery CD) and he thinks that's all any of us ever have gotten.
I have a full retail boxed copy of Windows 1.03, have Windows 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT 3.1, NT 3.51, NT 4.0 and 2000 install media. All of which is generic and can be installed on essentially any x86 hardware with the drives to read it.
There are decent emulators to run OS9 even on my NetBSD box. If I wanted to be really, really weird I could even run BasiliskII and (probably) install OS9 on the NetBSD that I have installed on my old SE/30. It would be really, really slow, of course.
But the GP for this comment is Twitter, so the only reason IHNBT is that I have a sense of humor.
I have opened SE's, and Pluses, and SE/30's using just a long handle T-15. In fact I don't even have the long handle T-15. A long handled flat bladed screwdriver (in fact, one of the common ones most large hardware stores stock) will wedge into the splines on the torx screws on the Mac to back them out.
I have never needed any special tool once the screws are out. You just lay the Mac face down on a pillow or some padding and do a little 'heft' action and it slides open.
It's entirely within the realm of likelihood that Apple spent a good amount of effort insuring that people believe that expensive special tools are needed to open a classic Mac. Because they don't want regular people in there. The Mac was designed for 'the rest of us' so the tech elite could transfer plenty of green from them.
When I was a kid, my father brought home an IBM 5100 a few weekends for us to mess with. It included a massive tractor-fed line printer. There was one program for it that used the sound side-effects of the line printer to play the William Tell Overture. This was in about 1975. It clearly constitutes an 'Ipod Prototype' that is earlier than anything Apple produced. Why, in 1975 all that Apple Computer's founders were doing was selling dope and blueboxes to steal telephone long distance time.
Ten years ago, I would have been all hot for something I could poke around and mess with. These days, I have different hobbies and greater demands on my time.
Welcome to middle age, dude. But be careful whom and what you sell out to.
It still matters. Just might not seem like it for awhile.
You are currently on apple.slashdot.org. It's not the same thing at all as slashdot.org.
Well, I will choose 'learn arcane commands' over 'click on pretty buttons' when what happens when the 'pretty buttons' are clicked is governed by not just a social misfit, but an organization of marketing types run by a crack dealer type guy for whom the only reason he isn't the captioned photo beside 'social misfit' in Wikipedia is that he has a lot of legal muscle.
It's a symbiotic relationship made for the iMac demographic. Look for fun times ahead.
It seems, though, that one of the pointed reasons for the 'closed' design of the Iphone is to prevent people from running VoIP apps.
Some people 'grok elegance' on different levels. I grok the elegance of the ergonomic design of my electric wire-wrap gun and an OK Industries cut-and-strip wire wrap bit.
You go ahead and 'grok the elegance' of slick shiney consumer stuff if that's your thing.
You can probably run NetBSD on either of them. But since the display is proprietary on both, you can only get to the /bin/csh (or /usr/pkg/bin/bash if you install the package) prompt by hard-wiring a VT100 terminal. Most people don't want to carry around a VT100 to connect to their cell phone with a UNIX command prompt.
(the above method is the only way of running NetBSD on certain Powerbooks)