The whole thing was reminiscent of the robber barons who raped the former Soviet Union of all its wealth and left its people for dead, while we cheered and watched our stock prices rise.
Can we clarify your point? You are claiming that the USSR was a thriving, wealthy economy before the fall of the Communists, and then after the collapse of Communism the west swooped in and 'stole' all that wealth?
That's really weird, because the history I have heard is that the Soviet Empire went bankrupt before the fall of communism, which is what LEAD to the fall of communism.
Don't the people who live in communist countries say they like the security, knowing that they don't have to stress out competing for the basics of life?
That's what they say when the government sends out television crews to interview them. Independent journalists seldom get permission to conduct candid interviews.
Screwing the people who trusted you is where the paycheck comes from in our culture.
'Fess up. You've been listening to a little too much Pink Floyd recently, eh?
You're kidding, right? All the money spent on Apollo projects produced tons of directly usable technology for the military. All the hugely expensive developments of integrated circuits, rocket propulsion technology, etc. It made it easier for the public to swallow for all that expensive R&D money to be spent on 'the peaceful exploration of space' than it would for it to be simply 'for the military' up front.
You also might find it more difficult to collect on the debts owed to you.
Not to come off unpleasantly, but there is no shortage of foreign countries that already are nearly impossible for the US to collect debt from. It's considered 'a serious crisis for the third world' by many handwringers.
Funny how you might thank that about the US but if a foreign government tried it you would be up in arms.
I think if you were to survey all the talk about 'Foreign Debt Forgiveness' you would find LOTS of people advocating it. Surprisingly, though, it's always 'Foreign Debt' that the US and other Western countries are owed.
We are not interested in your off-topic side rants about language. I recommend you find another forum to pollute with your off-topic rants. If you MUST make them, please oh please check that 'no karma' bonus box below the text entry box. Don't use your +1 for off topic rants. Like I will for this comment.
Everything else available at the time was superior to Windows 3.11.
Actually, that is far from true. With Windows 3.11 there came some important protected mode features that allowed the user to run multiple MS-DOS programs simultaneously on 386+ hardware. And if you installed 'PC Tools for Windows' you got a vastly improved File Manager, with powerful features that Microsoft actually licensed in to become part of the new Windows Explorer ('hit F2 to rename a file' is a keyboard shortcut that came from that, for instance). The peer to peer networking in Windows 3.11 is essentially the same as that in Windows 95.
There were a LOT of reasons to not immediately abandon Windows 3.11 and (more importantly) Office 4.3. It took Microsoft YEARS to come up with an Office version that was less stable and buggy than Windows 3.11 with Office 4.3 on it. It was one of their 'quality plateaus.'
I mean, really? Is a 'terraist' gonna glue the 'bomb' to the front of a shirt and wear it around like a fashion item?
Seriously, I didn't think there was this level of ignorance on Slashdot. With this level of ignorance here, it makes me worry that next time I go into Rat Shack to buy a bit of perfboard for a project, I'll be gunned down on the sidewalk in front of the store.
(IOW: if it's this bad here on Slashdot, I can IMAGINE the ignorant kneejerk reaction out on 'the street.')
It is really weird. There is an assumption these days that we've all 'upgraded' to XP. I honestly don't feel like a lame luddite for getting all my Windows needs fulfilled on a W2K box here at home. I use it for video editing, embedded software development, various multimedia tasks, etc. I finally have had to run XP at work, but there's essentially nothing about it to compel me to 'upgrade' at home. The few commercial packages I might be interested in 'upgrading' seem to incorporate the new Microsoft 'phone home to register' features that I have zero interest in involving myself with in the first place.
My copy of the GNU Emacs Manual, published by the FSF themselves, offers the GNU source archives on magnetic tape. Granted, it's a few years old, but it's not 25 years old yet.
It's pretty weird that the GNU organization now is in the business of specifying 'approved' exchange media.
If it was concealed in a case of some sort, and on opening the case there it was, blinking and a digit counting down, it would have looked like a bomb. How does a circuit board, openly displayed by being glued on an article of clothing, 'look like a bomb' ??
I mean, jeebus cripes. Is it going to be illegal to have an electric circuit board in public that is uncased? Is it conspiracy by PacTec and the other fancy (and rather expensive) plastic electronic project box sellers to get us geeks to always, with frantic diligence, stick our projects in a fancy box before we get shot as terraists by the authoritahs?
It would have been a fully legal to simply shoot her with a fully automatic weapon at the first hint of non-compliance.
Well, uh, yeah. People need to realize this isn't the America of 7 years ago. I'm actually surprised we're allowed to even cross the street at a busy intersection without showing our credentials.
I hate to say it, but you seem to be completely out of touch with reality.
I mean, really? Is a 'terraist' gonna glue the 'bomb' to the front of a shirt and wear it around like a fashion item?
Seriously, I didn't think there was this level of ignorance on Slashdot. With this level of ignorance here, it makes me worry that next time I go into Rat Shack to buy a bit of perfboard for a project, I'll be gunned down on the sidewalk in front of the store.
(IOW: if it's this bad here on Slashdot, I can IMAGINE the ignorant kneejerk reaction out on 'the street.')
They can also offer to provide a copy of the source on (machine readable) punched tape, or 80 column punched cards. Or on 6250bpi 9 track tape (with an allowable media charge for the reel(s) of tape, of course)
Why would anybody buy an older album, at full retail, new in a retail setting? You can usually get them for far less on eBay or a similar venue. I bought my second copies of 'Broken' and 'Fixed' that way, for less than I paid for the albums new when they came out.
I have been thinking of listing my copy of Windows 1.0, which complete with all paper and manuals, in the original retail box (which is a bit tattered from age, though). I imagine it's worth more on eBay now than it's original price.
Not sure if my copy of DOS 1.0 is worth as much as IBM charged, though. They used to charge quite a bit for PC-DOS back in the day. The first version I ever used, I bought 'surplus' at a swapmeet and it was still $70 (PC-DOS 3.1). I still have that, too.
Didn't you know? A lot of people here, and on GrokLaw, think they defeated SCO. Our comments here, plus a little DDOS of SCO servers, plus the word-of-mouth of a bunch of Open Source enthusiasts took down a big unholy company. Had nothing to do with Novell and IBM. Yeah.
It's been rewarding to root for the team that won, but we all knew who that was going to be, so it's actually been more like rooting for the team that everybody knew would win.
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That's right. The FSF has a lot of legal clout in Russia to enforce the rules of the GPL. I had forgotten.
Linux ships with 4 high level computer languages usable out of the box in the base install - perl, python, C and C++.
Not to be a curmudgeon or anything, but which 'Linux' do you mean? There isn't some single version that 'ships' the way you speak of it.
Thanks, I'll just keep on editing .fvwm2rc now....
Not a problem. You forget that in China, the people are a consumable resource.
The whole thing was reminiscent of the robber barons who raped the former Soviet Union of all its wealth and left its people for dead, while we cheered and watched our stock prices rise.
Can we clarify your point? You are claiming that the USSR was a thriving, wealthy economy before the fall of the Communists, and then after the collapse of Communism the west swooped in and 'stole' all that wealth?
That's really weird, because the history I have heard is that the Soviet Empire went bankrupt before the fall of communism, which is what LEAD to the fall of communism.
Don't the people who live in communist countries say they like the security, knowing that they don't have to stress out competing for the basics of life?
That's what they say when the government sends out television crews to interview them. Independent journalists seldom get permission to conduct candid interviews.
Screwing the people who trusted you is where the paycheck comes from in our culture.
'Fess up. You've been listening to a little too much Pink Floyd recently, eh?
how did Apollo help fight communism?
You're kidding, right? All the money spent on Apollo projects produced tons of directly usable technology for the military. All the hugely expensive developments of integrated circuits, rocket propulsion technology, etc. It made it easier for the public to swallow for all that expensive R&D money to be spent on 'the peaceful exploration of space' than it would for it to be simply 'for the military' up front.
You also might find it more difficult to collect on the debts owed to you.
Not to come off unpleasantly, but there is no shortage of foreign countries that already are nearly impossible for the US to collect debt from. It's considered 'a serious crisis for the third world' by many handwringers.
Funny how you might thank that about the US but if a foreign government tried it you would be up in arms.
I think if you were to survey all the talk about 'Foreign Debt Forgiveness' you would find LOTS of people advocating it. Surprisingly, though, it's always 'Foreign Debt' that the US and other Western countries are owed.
What's wrong with a little turnabout?
A long pneumatic tube would be more reliable.
In five simple words:
"No, it is not like that."
Try to figure out what you're ranting about better before you start the rant.
We are not interested in your off-topic side rants about language. I recommend you find another forum to pollute with your off-topic rants. If you MUST make them, please oh please check that 'no karma' bonus box below the text entry box. Don't use your +1 for off topic rants. Like I will for this comment.
Everything else available at the time was superior to Windows 3.11.
Actually, that is far from true. With Windows 3.11 there came some important protected mode features that allowed the user to run multiple MS-DOS programs simultaneously on 386+ hardware. And if you installed 'PC Tools for Windows' you got a vastly improved File Manager, with powerful features that Microsoft actually licensed in to become part of the new Windows Explorer ('hit F2 to rename a file' is a keyboard shortcut that came from that, for instance). The peer to peer networking in Windows 3.11 is essentially the same as that in Windows 95.
There were a LOT of reasons to not immediately abandon Windows 3.11 and (more importantly) Office 4.3. It took Microsoft YEARS to come up with an Office version that was less stable and buggy than Windows 3.11 with Office 4.3 on it. It was one of their 'quality plateaus.'
'get a command window at any folder' was a Windows 95 PowerToy.
What is 'bombish looking' about it???
I mean, really? Is a 'terraist' gonna glue the 'bomb' to the front of a shirt and wear it around like a fashion item?
Seriously, I didn't think there was this level of ignorance on Slashdot. With this level of ignorance here, it makes me worry that next time I go into Rat Shack to buy a bit of perfboard for a project, I'll be gunned down on the sidewalk in front of the store.
(IOW: if it's this bad here on Slashdot, I can IMAGINE the ignorant kneejerk reaction out on 'the street.')
It is really weird. There is an assumption these days that we've all 'upgraded' to XP. I honestly don't feel like a lame luddite for getting all my Windows needs fulfilled on a W2K box here at home. I use it for video editing, embedded software development, various multimedia tasks, etc. I finally have had to run XP at work, but there's essentially nothing about it to compel me to 'upgrade' at home. The few commercial packages I might be interested in 'upgrading' seem to incorporate the new Microsoft 'phone home to register' features that I have zero interest in involving myself with in the first place.
My copy of the GNU Emacs Manual, published by the FSF themselves, offers the GNU source archives on magnetic tape. Granted, it's a few years old, but it's not 25 years old yet.
It's pretty weird that the GNU organization now is in the business of specifying 'approved' exchange media.
How can this not look like a bomb??
If it was concealed in a case of some sort, and on opening the case there it was, blinking and a digit counting down, it would have looked like a bomb. How does a circuit board, openly displayed by being glued on an article of clothing, 'look like a bomb' ??
I mean, jeebus cripes. Is it going to be illegal to have an electric circuit board in public that is uncased? Is it conspiracy by PacTec and the other fancy (and rather expensive) plastic electronic project box sellers to get us geeks to always, with frantic diligence, stick our projects in a fancy box before we get shot as terraists by the authoritahs?
It would have been a fully legal to simply shoot her with a fully automatic weapon at the first hint of non-compliance.
Well, uh, yeah. People need to realize this isn't the America of 7 years ago. I'm actually surprised we're allowed to even cross the street at a busy intersection without showing our credentials.
I hate to say it, but you seem to be completely out of touch with reality.
Priceless.
What is 'bombish looking' about it???
I mean, really? Is a 'terraist' gonna glue the 'bomb' to the front of a shirt and wear it around like a fashion item?
Seriously, I didn't think there was this level of ignorance on Slashdot. With this level of ignorance here, it makes me worry that next time I go into Rat Shack to buy a bit of perfboard for a project, I'll be gunned down on the sidewalk in front of the store.
(IOW: if it's this bad here on Slashdot, I can IMAGINE the ignorant kneejerk reaction out on 'the street.')
They can also offer to provide a copy of the source on (machine readable) punched tape, or 80 column punched cards. Or on 6250bpi 9 track tape (with an allowable media charge for the reel(s) of tape, of course)
Why would anybody buy an older album, at full retail, new in a retail setting? You can usually get them for far less on eBay or a similar venue. I bought my second copies of 'Broken' and 'Fixed' that way, for less than I paid for the albums new when they came out.
I have been thinking of listing my copy of Windows 1.0, which complete with all paper and manuals, in the original retail box (which is a bit tattered from age, though). I imagine it's worth more on eBay now than it's original price.
Not sure if my copy of DOS 1.0 is worth as much as IBM charged, though. They used to charge quite a bit for PC-DOS back in the day. The first version I ever used, I bought 'surplus' at a swapmeet and it was still $70 (PC-DOS 3.1). I still have that, too.
Where are you buying these $24-45 albums?? The norm that I see is closer to $13, and some as high as $17. And lots of albums in the $7-10 range also.
Am I buying albums in the wrong place? Are the 'cool' people paying more in boutiques??
A head shop can't have THAT high an overhead these days...
Didn't you know? A lot of people here, and on GrokLaw, think they defeated SCO. Our comments here, plus a little DDOS of SCO servers, plus the word-of-mouth of a bunch of Open Source enthusiasts took down a big unholy company. Had nothing to do with Novell and IBM. Yeah.
It's been rewarding to root for the team that won, but we all knew who that was going to be, so it's actually been more like rooting for the team that everybody knew would win.